Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.

What makes men happy is liking what they have to do. This is a principle on which society is not founded

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain.

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

Must we, under the happy hope of a false tranquility, sacrifice to the people in power the public welfare, and under vain pretence of preserving the peace, abandon the empire to robbers who would plunder it