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.

Call on a business man only at business times, and on business; transact your business, and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business.

I have seen their backs before.

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

I attribute my success on the battlefield to always being on the spot to see and do everything for myself

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

I am not only not prepared to bring forward any measure of this nature, but I will at once declare that, as far as I am concerned, as long as I hold any station in the Government of the country, I shall always feel it my duty to resist such measures when proposed by others.