You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.
The Concordat is not the victory of any one party but the consolidation of all.
War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.
In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.
They wanted me to be a Washington.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.