There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.
Publish and be damned.
My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.
Habit is ten times nature.
During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, "Remember men, you are Portuguese!"