“Pressure makes diamonds”

“You're never beaten until you admit it”

“We must guard against becoming so engrossed in the specific nature of the roots and bark of the trees of knowledge as to miss the meaning and grandeur of the forest they compose.”

“Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.”

“When in doubt, ATTACK!”

“I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier.”

“When the course of events shall have removed you to distant scenes of action where laurels not nurtured with the blood of my country may be gathered, I shall urge sincere prayers for your obtaining every honor and preferment which may gladden the heart of a soldier.”

“I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.”

“Every subject's duty is the Kings, but every subject's soul is his own.”

“What e'er thou art, act well thy part.”

“Give obedience where 'tis truly owed.”

“Go, bid the soldiers shoot.”

“Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.”

“We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation.”

“Sound trumpets! Let our bloody colours wave! And either victory, or else a grave.”

“Then with the losers let it sympathize,For nothing can seem foul to those that win.”

“There is no such sport as sport by sport o'erthrown.”