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

Of all the peoples of Europe, Spaniards disgust me the least.

Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.

An army travels on its stomach. Soup makes the soldier.

The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself.

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

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.