Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible.

Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers.

All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few common-place sentences put into bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.

Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.