If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
The word impossible is not French.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors.
I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.
Unavailable wars are always just.