The leader's role is to define reality, then give hope

My dominion ends where that of conscience begins.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten.

When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Opportunities? I make opportunities.