Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.

Once you are so unfortunate as to be drawn into a war, no price is too great to pay for an early and victorious peace.

Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves, and to save all those who rely upon you. You have only to go right on, and at the end of the road, be it short or long, victory and honor will be found.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

As we have triumphed, so we may be merciful; as we are strong, so we can afford to be generous.