My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.

There are no manifestos like cannon and musketry.

A great country cannot wage a little war.

A great country ought not to make little wars.

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

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