You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.
It is rare that a legislature reasons. It is too quickly impassioned.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.
History is a myth that men agree to believe.
I wish I could take a raincheck on June 18.1815