They wanted me to be a Washington.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

I would rather have a general who was lucky than one who was good.

It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.

The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.

Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.