All Quotes by Duke of Wellington
βI used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.β
βAs Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.'β
βThe only thing I am afraid of is fear.β
βI don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.β
βI don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.β
βAll the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.β
βEducate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.β
βThe whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.β