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

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.

All the women in the world would not make me lose an hour.

A faithful friend is the true image of the Deity.

Unavailable wars are always just.