When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.

Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors.

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

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse.

The logical end to defensive warfare is surrender.