An empty throne always tempts me.

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

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

Success is the most convincing talker in the world.

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.

A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.