Quotes from Duke of Wellington

The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink.

During the Peninsula War, I heard a Portuguese general address his troops before a battle with the words, "Remember men, you are Portuguese!"

If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.

A great country can have no such thing as a little war.

The only thing that they can be relied on to do is to gallop too far and too fast.

There is nothing on earth so stupid as a gallant officer.

When my journal appears, many statues must come down.

I have seen their backs before.

A great country ought not to make little wars.

I don't know what effect these men will have on the enemy but by God they frighten me.

The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.

When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it.

Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.

Call on a business man only at business times, and on business; transact your business, and go about your business, in order to give him time to finish his business.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wished are concerned

I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious.

I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.

It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.

Call on a business man at business times only and on business transact your business and go about your business in order to give him time to finish his busmess.

Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.

I see no reason to suppose these machines will ever force themselves into general use.