True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.

I have doubtless erred more or less in politics, but a crime I never committed.

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

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves. One must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

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