Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.
He who laughs last didn't get the joke.
Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.
Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.
The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.
I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.