Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon.

Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.

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

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.