I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.

The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.

Clever policy consists in making nations believe they are free.

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

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.