When I had the honor to be a second lieutenant, I ate dry bread, but I never let anyone know that I was poor.

Let the path be open to talent.

Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.

Rascality has limits; stupidity has not.