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

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

My star was fading, I felt the reins slipping out of my grasp, and could do nothing to stop it.

Conquest has made me what I am, only conquest can maintain me.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.

The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.