In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse.
A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root.
Unavailable wars are always just.
The English have no exaulted sentiments. They can all be bought.
Rascality has limits; stupidity has not.
When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.