Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances
After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.
Soldiers win battles and generals get the medals.
Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.
Men, in general, are but great children.
One can lead a nation only by helping it see a bright outlook. A leader is a dealer in hope.