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Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything.
If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.
Every man who is worth thirty millions and is not wedded to them, is dangerous to the government.
When defending itself against another country, a nation never lacks men, but too often, soldiers.
Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors.
If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East.
So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers.
When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail.
I have always had plenty of friends, and now at age sixty, I face four walls as a common prisoner.
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
War is very simple, direct, and ruthless. It takes a simple, direct, and ruthless man to wage war.
The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail.
For the stability of the Government, the people should have a considerable voice in the elections.
I drink Champagne when I win, to celebrate...and I drink Champagne when I lose, to console myself.
It strengthens the bonds between nations to have the same civil laws and the same monetary system.
It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory
When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.
We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.
You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening.
A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later.
War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.
Tanks are new and special weapon-newer than, as special, and certainly as valuable as the airplane.
A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.
When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.
It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general.
The Emperor died forsaken by all, on this horrible rock. (St. Helena) His death struggle was awful!
Paradise is a center whither the souls of all men are proceeding, each sect in its particular road.
There is no greater thing two friends can do for each other than simply to be each other's friends.
Some people say there are plenty of fish in the sea - until you find love - then there is only one.
Remember that the enemy is just as frightened as you are and probably more so. They are not supermen
I send you a kaffis of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitterness of my victory.
For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.
The Limeys want us in even with our hastily made plans and our half-trained and half-equipped troops.
Governments keep their promises only when they are forced, or when it is to their advantage to do so.
My business is to succeed, and I’m good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day.
The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.
It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying.
The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy.
To imagine that it is possible to perform great military deeds without fighting is just empty dreams.
Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.
The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.
Make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up.
When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions.
Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.
To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.
Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
In statesmanship there are predicaments from which it is impossible to escape without some wrongdoing.