Shoot the brave officers, and the cowards will run away and take the men with them.

My religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me.

The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.

Duty is ours; consequences are God's.

I want my army to be an army of the living God.

The only winner today is big business.

Never take counsel of your fears.

People who are anxious to bring on war don't know what they are bargaining for; they don't see all the horrors that must accompany such an event.

There are but few commanders who properly appreciate the value of celerity.

You may be whatever you resolve to be.

We must make this campaign an exceedingly active one. Only thus can a weaker country cope with a stronger; it must make up in activity what it lacks in strength.

One good thing about lovers is that they don't take up much room on public transport.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.

Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother's; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery.

We pursue that which retreats from us.

Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.

We actually have not required in this law that you carry health insurance.

The only question that really counts, must be thins one: are things getting better or are they getting worse?

Knavery is the best defense against a knave.

My current works are abstracts cunningly disguised as landscapes. It is the Canadian way.