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“Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.”
“I have got an infamous army, very weak and ill-equipped, and a very inexperienced staff.”
Source: The dispatches of ... the duke of Wellington, compiled by lieut. colonel Gurwood. [With] Suppl. to vol. 1/3 [and] Index. [With] Index
“An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.”
“Napoleon has humbugged me, by God; he has gained twenty-four hours' march on me.”
Source: The dispatches of ... the duke of Wellington, compiled by lieut. colonel Gurwood. [With] Suppl. to vol. 1/3 [and] Index. [With] Index
“My rule always was to do the business of the day in the day.”
“There is nothing so dreadful as a great victory--except a great defeat.”
“I see no reason to suppose these machines will ever force themselves into general use.”
“Believe me that every man you see in a military uniform is not a hero.”
Source: The dispatches of ... the duke of Wellington, compiled by lieut. colonel Gurwood. [With] Suppl. to vol. 1/3 [and] Index. [With] Index
“Victory is the ability to fight five minutes longer than any other army in the world.”
“Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.”
“Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.”
“I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.”
“The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.”
“Hard pounding, gentlemen. Let's see who pounds the longest.”
“We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.”
“I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.”
“The only thing that they can be relied on to do is to gallop too far and too fast.”
“Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.”
“A great country cannot wage a little war.”
Source: Maxims and Opinions of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Selected From His Writings and Speeches During a Public Life of More Than Half a Century