There are no manifestos like cannon and musketry.

It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.

If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.

I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.

When one begins to turn in bed, it is time to get up.

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