Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.

The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow.

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.

I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.