Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance, and good use of both.

The nature of Christ's existence is mysterious, I admit; but this mystery meets the wants of man. Reject it, and the world is an inexplicable riddle; believe it, and the history of our race is satisfactorily explained.

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

No amount of money will induce someone to lay down their life, but they will gladly do so for a bit of yellow ribbon.

The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.