My success and everything good that I have done, I owe to my mother.

Give me enough medals and I’ll win you any war

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same--majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle.

To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.

Clever policy consists in making nations believe they are free.