Believe me that every man you see in a military uniform is not a hero.

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

A great country ought not to make little wars.

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'.

If you believe that you will believe anything.

Today when a man gets married he gets a home, a housekeeper, a cook, a cheering squad and another paycheck. When a woman marries, she gets a boarder. To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.

The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.