If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.

Those who are free from common prejudices acquire others.

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.

The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.

I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.

Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.

I have noticed in every campaign that I have fought-that there is a key segment of time, somewhere between 13 and 15 minutes in which the battle is won or lost. I focus on that segment of time, and I win.