Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.

In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of battle once established, the one who has the ability to concentrate an unlooked for mass of artillery suddenly and unexpectedly on one of these points is sure to carry the day.

My dominion ends where that of conscience begins.

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

God is on the side of the heaviest cannon.