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• There are no manifestos like cannon and musketry. -- The Duke of Wellingto
• Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
  -- Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) -- Despatch, 1815...
• Publish and be damned! -- Arthur Wellesley , Duke of Wellington 1769-1852 -- Attributed
  when the courtesan Harriette Wilson threatened to publish her memoirs and his lette...
• The government was contemplating the dispatch of an expedition to Burma
  with a view to taking Rangoon, and a question arose as to who would be the fittest general to be sent in command of the expedition....
• You can lead a horse to drink, but you can't make it water!
• You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.
• Circumstances over which I have no control. -- Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (1769-1852)
• There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.
  -- Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) -- Letter to Mr. Huskisso...
• They will only cause the lower classes to move about needlessly.
  -- The Duke of Wellington, on early steam railroads....