When People Cease To Complain, They Cease

When I Had The Honor To Be A Second Lieutenant, I Ate Dry Bread, But I Never Let Anyone Know That I Was Poor.

You Become Strong By Defying Defeat And By Turning Loss Into Gain And Failure To Success.

Good And Decent People Must Be Protected And Persuaded By Gentle Means, But The Rabble Must Be Led By Terror.

Malice Delights To Blacken The Characters Of Prominent Men.

Those Who Failed To Oppose Me, Who Readily Agreed With Me, Accepted All My Views, And Yielded Easily To My Opinions, Were Those Who Did Me The Most Injury, And Were My Worst Enemies, Because, By Surrendering To Me So Easily, They Encouraged Me To Go Too Far... I Was Then Too Powerful For Any Man, Except Myself, To Injure Me.