I may lose a battle but I will never lose a minute.

It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.

I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get.

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

In Russia there are no roads - only areas.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

This accession of territory affirms forever the power of the United States, and I have given England a maritime rival who sooner or later will humble her pride.