Quotes of Leading Personalities

He who is afraid is half beaten.
- Field Marshal Prince Alexander Suvarov
Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
- General Andrew Jackson
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
- General Andrew Jackson
Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.
- General Andrew Jackson
Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defence and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
- General Andrew Jackson
One man with courage makes a majority.
- General Andrew Jackson
It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
- General Andrew Jackson

Elevate them guns a little lower.
- General Andrew Jackson at New Orleans
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
- Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood before Trafalgar
I don't care how they dress so long as they mind their fighting.
- Sir Thomas Picton on his mens' poor dress standards.