Opportunities? I make opportunities.

I made all my generals out of mud.

It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.

Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all.

I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.

Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice.

The only victory over love is flight.