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

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Give Me a Turkish Army. I will Conquer world.

I wish I could take a raincheck on June 18.1815

What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!

The great difficulty with politics is, that there are no established principles.

This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog. Napoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death.