Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors.

We should wash our dirty linen at home.

I have seen only yoU, I have admired only yoU, I desire only You

Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.

Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.

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

My dominion ends where that of conscience begins.