When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it.
There is nothing on earth so stupid as a gallant officer.
As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.
If you believe that you will believe anything.
What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards!
Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.