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.

I hope before long to press you in my arms and shall shower on you a million burning kisses as under the Equator.

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

Give me enough medals and I’ll win you any war

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

A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it.

Give Me a Turkish Army. I will Conquer world.