Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

...as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.