History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Conquest has made me what I am, only conquest can maintain me.

England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation.

Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights of the throne, and even social order itself.

He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.

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

Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives.