Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

I have noticed in every campaign that I have fought-that there is a key segment of time, somewhere between 13 and 15 minutes in which the battle is won or lost. I focus on that segment of time, and I win.

All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles.

I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

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

Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.