Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.

The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.

Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances

Cavalry is useful before, during, and after the battle.

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.

It strengthens the bonds between nations to have the same civil laws and the same monetary system.

Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.