Fear must rule in a despotism.

Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.

The tongue of man is powerful enough to render the ideas which the human intellect conceives; but in the realm of true and deep sentiments it is but a weak interpreter. These are inexpressible, like the endless glory of the Omnipotent.

In exile, I have tried to profit by the past and prepare for the future.

If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.

The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.

Liberty is a principle; its community is its security; exclusiveness is its doom.