In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
All religions have been made by men.
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
The human race is governed by its imagination.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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.
Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Imagination rules the world.
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
Respect the burden.
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.