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.

Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.

I see no reason to suppose these machines will ever force themselves into general use.

There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.

Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.

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

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.