My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfies us both. They are to do what they please, and I am to do what I please.

Great advantage is drawn from knowledge of your adversary, and when you know the measure of his intelligence and character, you can use it to play on his weakness.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

It has been said by a certain general, that the first object in the establishment of an army ought to be making provision for the belly, that being the basis and foundation of all operations.

A man with his heart in his profession imagines and finds resources where the worthless and lazy despair.

No government can exist without taxation. The money must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of levying so as not to oppress.

Our work is to present things that are as they are.