There are no manifestos like cannon and musketry.

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

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

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

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'.

A great country cannot wage a little war.

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