Go Sir, gallop and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything but not time.

The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin.

I start out by believing the worst

We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost.

It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of curiosity than of real importance.

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

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