Ability is nothing without opportunity.

In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors.

You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.

I hope before long to press you in my arms and shall shower on you a million burning kisses as under the Equator.

One can lead a nation only by helping it see a bright outlook. A leader is a dealer in hope.

It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory

Go Sir, gallop and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything but not time.