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.

It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in the balance. This is a very loose way of talking; but the idea is a very different one from that of his presence at a battle being equal to a reinforcement of forty thousand men.

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.

You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you.

There is nothing on earth so stupid as a gallant officer.

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

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