A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.

Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives.

There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.

The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.

I have noticed in every campaign that I have fought-that there is a key segment of time, somewhere between 13 and 15 minutes in which the battle is won or lost. I focus on that segment of time, and I win.

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

In war it is not men, but the man who counts.