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 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.
More Quotes by Duke of Wellington
I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.
Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.
I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.
Habit is ten times nature.
Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.