"Never attempt to make a thing perfect before you have done it."

"It is disgusting to notice the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects, and the amount of money that goes out of the country as a consequence. Everybody is using coffee; this must be pr…"

"A man without a cause is a man without a country."

"The greatest pleasure of a good general is to outwit his enemy."

"Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments."