If you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.

When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.

In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

The unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon.

I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.

The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes its extension, behold! It is upon this table: This book, surpassing all others. I never omit to read it, and every day with some pleasure.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.