A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

The most terrible of all my battles was the one before Moscow. The French showed themselves to be worthy of victory, but the Russians showed themselves worthy of being invincible.

It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

Men, in general, are but great children.