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There are no manifestos like cannon and musketry.

I have seen their backs before.

I have no small talk and Peel has no manners.

A great country cannot wage a little war.

An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.

I see no reason to suppose these machines will ever force themselves into general use.

The scum of the earth ... but what fine soldiers we have made them.

During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, Remember men, you are Portuguese!

A great country can have no such thing as a little war.

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.

Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.

The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.

Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.

God deliver me from my friends! I'll take care of my enemies myself.

I have got an infamous army, very weak and ill-equipped, and a very inexperienced staff.

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.

If you believe that you will believe anything.

The only thing that they can be relied on to do is to gallop too far and too fast.

Believe me that every man you see in a military uniform is not a hero.

My rule always was to do the business of the day in the day.

What masks are these uniforms to hide cowards!

Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.

When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it.

Error is ever the sequence of haste.

There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.

The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.

You must build your House of Parliament on the river: so ... that the populace cannot exact their demands by sitting down round you.

To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound

Always get over heavy ground as lightly as you can.

I acknowledge that I should not like to see again such loss as I sustained on
the 23rd September, even if attended by such a gain.

A great country ought not to make little wars.

Always make water when you can.

As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.'

I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.

I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.

There is nothing so dreadful as a great victory
except a great defeat.

There is nothing on earth so stupid as a gallant officer.

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.

When one begins to turn in bed, it is time to get up.

Napoleon has humbugged me, by God; he has gained twenty-four hours' march on me.

If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.

Yes, about ten minutes.

I attribute my success on the battlefield to always being on the spot to see and do everything for myself