The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

In Russia there are no roads - only areas.

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.

The best way to make every one poor is to insist on equality of wealth.

In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it.

I have never loved anyone for love's sake except, perhaps, Josephine - a little.