A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.

Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.

Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten.

Liberty and equality are magical words.

It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.

The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

Give me enough ribbons to place on the tunics of my soldiers and I can conquer the world.