An army marches on its stomach.

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.

As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.

Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.

The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope.

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.