What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion.
If you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything.
My success and everything good that I have done, I owe to my mother.
A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised.