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

The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.

Clever policy consists in making nations believe they are free.

I have noticed in every campaign that I have fought-that there is a key segment of time, somewhere between 13 and 15 minutes in which the battle is won or lost. I focus on that segment of time, and I win.

Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors.

Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.

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