No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

To a father who loves his children victor has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion.

In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.

In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.