Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

...to win by one is enough.

Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields.

I am all for your using machines, but do not let them use you.

Un pesimista ve la dificultad en cada oportunidad; un optimista ve una oportunidad en cada dificultad

We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.

The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower.