"Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it."

"Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him."

"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."

"War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men."

"I was excellent. Everybody loved me. I love myself, and I like bums."

"Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state."