There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.