Generals are not to be too scrupulous.

From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same--majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle.

All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world.

My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money, as on the need to block for ever the march of the blacks in the world.

The most terrible of all my battles was the one before Moscow. The French showed themselves to be worthy of victory, but the Russians showed themselves worthy of being invincible.

It's the people who are in the wrong who get angry.

England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation.