Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.

Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.

You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.

Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon.

Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around.