The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.

You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

When I had the honor to be a second lieutenant, I ate dry bread, but I never let anyone know that I was poor.

There is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognise the hand of fate

Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.

Without cavalry, battles are without result.