I have got an infamous army, very weak and ill-equipped, and a very inexperienced staff.

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

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

A great country ought not to make little wars.

I see no reason to suppose these machines will ever force themselves into general use.

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.

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