Everybody is using coffee. If possible, this must be prevented. My people must drink beer.

A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species.

In trying to defend everything he defended nothing.

It has been said by a certain general, that the first object in the establishment of an army ought to be making provision for the belly, that being the basis and foundation of all operations.

God is always with the strongest battalions.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war.