To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.

The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin.

A Constitution should be short and obscure.