History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.
It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found.