On victory, you deserve beer. On defeat, you need it.

God is on the side of the heaviest cannon.

Clever policy consists in making nations believe they are free.

Give me enough ribbons to place on the tunics of my soldiers and I can conquer the world.

I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.

No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.

The English have no exaulted sentiments. They can all be bought.