Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.

It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires.

I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously.

But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go.