A great country can have no such thing as a little war.

During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, "Remember men, you are Portuguese!"

Error is ever the sequence of haste.

To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned

There are no manifestos like cannon and musketry.

The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.