Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.

I congratulate you, my brave countrymen and fellow soldiers, on the spirit and success with which you have executed this important part of our enterprise.

There is such a choice of difficulties that I am myself at a loss how to determine.

What, do they run already? Then I die happy.

Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.

You know too well the forces which compose their army to dread their superior numbers.

War is an option of difficulties.