Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley
» Army and Navy » “I don’t know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they terrify me.”
» Army and Navy » “We have in the service the scum of the earth as common soldiers.”
» Biography » “When my journal appears, many statues must come down.”
» Discretion » “Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious.”
» Education » “Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils.”
» Endurance » “Hard pounding, gentlemen: but we shall see who can pound the longest.”
» Engineering » “To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.”
» Habit » “Habit is ten times nature.”
» Prayer » “The Lord’s prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.”
» Victory » “Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.”
