War is an option of difficulties.
What, do they run already? Then I die happy.
The impossibility of a retreat makes no difference in the situation of men resolved to conquer or die; and, believe me, my friends, if your conquest could be bought with the blood of your general, he would most cheerfully resign a life which he has long devoted to his country.
Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.
There is such a choice of difficulties that I am myself at a loss how to determine.
Now God be praised, I will die in peace.