Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

Treaties are observed as long as they are in harmony with interests.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

I have noticed in every campaign that I have fought-that there is a key segment of time, somewhere between 13 and 15 minutes in which the battle is won or lost. I focus on that segment of time, and I win.

They wanted me to be a Washington.