A Constitution should be short and obscure.

I would rather have a general who was lucky than one who was good.

Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.

There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.

A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.