Arthur Wellesley

“Up, Guards, and at 'em!”

“Our army is composed of the scum of the earth—the mere scum of the earth.”

“I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.”

“Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.”

“There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in.”

“The battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.”

“Publish and be damned.”

“The only thing I am afraid of is fear.”

“All 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 guessing what was at the other side of the hill.”

“Hard pounding this, gentlemen; let's see who will pound longest.”

“I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.”

“A great country can have no such thing as a little war.”

“There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.”

“I have no small talk and Peel has no manners.”

“The government of England is the monarchy.”