The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.

Leaders deal in hope.

The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.

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

Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?

He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.

The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory