In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse.

He is almost a statesman. He lies well.

Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men;.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses.

The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.

Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.

The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread.

My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money, as on the need to block for ever the march of the blacks in the world.