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

As a member of the Protestant British squirearchy ruling Ireland, he was touchy about his Irish origins. When in later life an enthusiastic Gael commended him as a famous Irishman, he replied "A man can be born in a stable, and yet not be an animal.

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.

Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.

Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.

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

A great country ought not to make little wars.