Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.

If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.

Nothing is lost as long as courage remains

Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.

Give me a man with a good allowance of nose,... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose.

It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory

My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money, as on the need to block for ever the march of the blacks in the world.