If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
History is the invention of historians.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
If you (to General Bertrand) do not perceive that Jesus Christ is God, very well; then I did wrong to make you a general.
The great difficulty with politics is, that there are no established principles.
More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.