"The first quality of the commander-in-chief is..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

“War is ninety percent information.”

“Conquest has made me what I am, only conquest can maintain me.”

“They are the carrion birds of humanity...[speaking of the Jews] are a state within a state. They are certainly not real citizens...The evils of Jews do not stem from individuals but from the fundamental nature of these people.”

“An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, monachism of the Hermit Anthony, the Reformation of Luther, Quakerism of Fox, Methodism of Wesley, abolition of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome;" and all history resolves itself easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons. Let a man, then, know his worth, and keep things under his feet.”

“Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils - no, nor the human race, as I believe - and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day.”

“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”

“The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.”

“Bring me Longstreet's head on a platter and the war will be over”

“A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.”