Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

Error is ever the sequence of haste.

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.

When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it.

An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.

There are no manifestos like cannon and musketry.

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