Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.
Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
A Constitution should be short and obscure.
The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.
If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China? There lies a sleeping giant. Let him sleep! For when he wakes he will move the world.
China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow.
It is not set speeches at the moment of battle that render soldiers brave. The veteran scarcely listens to them, and the recruit forgets them at the first discharge.
Someone says, “Boys will be boys”; he forgot to add, “Boys will be men.”
Do not wake me when you have good news to communicate, with that there is no hurry. But when you bring bad news, rouse me instantly, for then there is not a moment to be lost.
A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
There are different ways of assassinating man – by pistol, sword, or moral assassination. They are the same in their results, except that the last is more cruel.
