Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon.
To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.
I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.
Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.
It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found.