In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them.
Conquest has made me what I am, only conquest can maintain me.
It's the people who are in the wrong who get angry.
The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
There is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognise the hand of fate
The worse the man, the better the soldier.