Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
Necessity dominates inclination, will, and right.
They wanted me to be a Washington.
It strengthens the bonds between nations to have the same civil laws and the same monetary system.
The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.