Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.

Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune.

Give Me a Turkish Army. I will Conquer world.

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.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.