Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

The most terrible of all my battles was the one before Moscow. The French showed themselves to be worthy of victory, but the Russians showed themselves worthy of being invincible.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

The unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon.

A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.

Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.

Never interfere with an enemy in the process of destroying himself.