The organization for supplying the army was very complete. Each brigade furnished a company to gather supplies of forage and provisions...

I had been at West Point with Hays for three years, and had served with him through the Mexican War, a portion of the time in the same...

The worst excuse a soldier can make for declining service is that he once ranked the commander he is ordered to report to. Grant, Ulysses...

In time of war the President, being by the Constitution Commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy, is responsible for the selection of...

On the evening of the first day out from Goliad we heard the most unearthly howling of wolves, directly in our front. The prairie grass...

The appointment seemed to support Grant’s own assertion that “it is men who wait to be selected, and not those who seek, from whom we may...

I do not oppose all that seem wrong, for the Multitude are more effectually set right by Experience, than kept from going wrong by...

I have received your kind Letter of Sept. the 22nd. And from another Friend a Copy of that lying Essay in which I am represented as the...

When Pompey learned this he ordered his infantry not to advance farther, not to break the line of formation, and not to hurl the javelin,...

Caesar was still a young man, but powerful in speech and action, audacious in every way, sanguine (confident) in everything, and profuse...

But within my own memory there were two men of towering merit, though of opposite character, Marcus Cato and Gaius Caesar: With respect...

For kings feel threatened more by good men than bad, and the merit of others always arouses fear in them. Sallust. Sallust, The War with...

Yet I, your comforter, have felt my grief assuaged not so much by the books to which I have always been devoted as by the passing of...

In this connection I often admire Caesar’s responsibility, fairness, and good sense. He never mentions Pompey’s name except in the most...

We must realize, dear friend, that as in our everyday life nothing is really great which it is a mark of greatness to despise, I mean,...

And so, if we have had no better gift from the gods than speech, what else should we think so deserving of careful cultivation? In what...

“…no one excels in big things who fails in small things.” Quintilian. Quintilian, The Orator’s Education Books 1-2. Loeb Classical...

First of all, then, let him adopt a paternal attitude towards his pupils, and regard himself as taking the place of those whose children...

Patton commenting on being removed from command: My final thought on the matter is that I am destined to achieve some great thing—what I...

In September therefore he went to Pershing and asked to be posted to a fighting unit. Pershing understood: he would have done the same...

At the same time he made it clear that his own view of Stalin was a high one.” Then Churchill shifted his comments to Roosevelt. His...

To Churchill, it seemed as though Britain would have to go it alone, and a German invasion could be at hand. One June evening at dinner...

Failure to stop Hitler sooner, saying: “Of this I am certain, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find...

“Anger is a waste of energy,” Churchill said. “Steam which is used to blow off a safety valve would be better used to drive the engine.”...