I attribute my success on the battlefield to always being on the spot to see and do everything for myself

- Duke Of Wellington

Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.

- Duke Of Wellington

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

- Duke Of Wellington

We always have been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France.

- Duke Of Wellington

Victory is the ability to fight five minutes longer than any other army in the world.

- Duke Of Wellington

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.

- Duke Of Wellington

Troops would never be deficient in courage, if they could only know how deficient in it their enemies were.

- Duke Of Wellington

The scum of the earth... but what fine soldiers we have made them.

- Duke Of Wellington

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 'g…

- Duke Of Wellington