I accept I might be defeated, but caught in surprise, never.

How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit, he cannot resign himself to this d…

I am never angry when contradicted, I seek to be enlightened.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay, And a pinnace, like a fluttered bird, came flying from far away: 'Spanish ships of war at sea! we have sight…

In spite of intense efforts, the moment has drawn near when this front, already so heavily strained, will break. I consider it my duty to bring these conclusio…

I have always believed that success would be the inevitable result if the two services, the army and the navy, had fair play, and if we sent the right man to f…