The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.
I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.
Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.
In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors.
There is no Nation however small which had the right to set itself free, that has not rescued itself from the dishonour of obeying the Prince imposed by an enemy in the hour of victory.
There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it.
There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
The tools belong to the man who can use them.
If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.
In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.
I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.
Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.
I may be accused or rashness, but not sluggishness.
The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes its extension, behold! It is upon this table: This book, surpassing all others. I never omit to read it, and every day with some pleasure.
Christ alone has succeeded in so raising the mind of man toward the unseen, that it becomes insensible to the barriers of time and space.
The keys of a fortress are always well worth the retirement of the garrison when it is resolved to yield only on those conditions. On this principle it is always wiser to grant an honorable capitulation to a garrison which has made a vigorous resistance than to risk an assault.
Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.
Ability has nothing to do with opportunity.
This accession of territory affirms forever the power of the United States, and I have given England a maritime rival who sooner or later will humble her pride.
A faithful friend is the true image of the Deity.
Peoples of Egypt , you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that I have come to restore your rights!
Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers.
Morality for the upper classes, the gallows for the rabbles.
The worse the troops the greater the need of artillery.
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