Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

The first quality of the commander-in-chief is a cool head to receive a correct impression of things. He should not allow himself to be confused by either good or bad news.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.

The army is the true nobility of our country.

There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich.

No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.