Today when a man gets married he gets a home, a housekeeper, a cook, a cheering squad and another paycheck. When a woman marries, she gets a boarder. To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.

The scum of the earth... but what fine soldiers we have made them.

The only thing that they can be relied on to do is to gallop too far and too fast.

I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.

Believe me that every man you see in a military uniform is not a hero.

There are no manifestos like cannon and musketry.