Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

We are nothing but by the law.

It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found.

Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten.

If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.

Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

True wisdom, in general, consists in energetic determination.