In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory

The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.

Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.

In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.