My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.

In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.

I am not ashamed to say that I am the son of a washerwoman.

Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.

Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand.

My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.

I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.