Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

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

In war it is not men, but the man who counts.

This accession of territory affirms forever the power of the United States, and I have given England a maritime rival who sooner or later will humble her pride.

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East.