You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you.

I have no small talk and Peel has no manners.

It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.

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

Victory is the ability to fight five minutes longer than any other army in the world.

Publish and be damned.

Error is ever the sequence of haste.