What is history but a fable agreed upon?
Opportunities? I make opportunities.
When I had the honor to be a second lieutenant, I ate dry bread, but I never let anyone know that I was poor.
The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.
The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.
Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance, and good use of both.