To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.

A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.

Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all.

God is on the side of the heaviest cannon.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

I have noticed in every campaign that I have fought-that there is a key segment of time, somewhere between 13 and 15 minutes in which the battle is won or lost. I focus on that segment of time, and I win.