My true glory is not to have won 40 battles ... Waterloo will erase the memory of so many victories, ... But ... what will live forever, is my Civil Code.

It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found.

I start out by believing the worst

Give Me a Turkish Army. I will Conquer world.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

I would rather have a general who was lucky than one who was good.

Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army.