I have doubtless erred more or less in politics, but a crime I never committed.
The purely defensive is doomed to defeat.
History is written by the winners.
Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all.
My dominion ends where that of conscience begins.
War,--the trade of barbarians!