My star was fading, I felt the reins slipping out of my grasp, and could do nothing to stop it.

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

There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it.

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.

Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.

The populace judges of the power of God by the power of the priests.

Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.