There are no manifestos like cannon and musketry.
Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.
A great country ought not to make little wars.
The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.
There is nothing so dreadful as a great victory--except a great defeat.
As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.