"A great many things have been said about me, and I have heard them all. But I have not heard anything that has made me change my opinion of myself."

"I have always been a friend to liberty, but I have never been a friend to license."

"I like to talk to a man, not to a woman, because a man is always less troublesome."

"I would rather suffer a hundred times than be a slave."

"One must have a good digestion and a strong constitution to rule Russia."