Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

Give me enough ribbons to place on the tunics of my soldiers and I can conquer the world.

The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.

Wisdom and policy dictate that we must do as destiny demands and keep peace with the irresistible march of events.

Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.

Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.

In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality.