“I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned”
“God deliver me from my friends! I'll take care of my enemies myself.”
“If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.”
“There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.”
“Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.”
“Educate men without religion and you make them clever devils.”
“The scum of the earth... but what fine soldiers we have made them.”
“Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.”
“The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.”
“Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.”
“The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.”