The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory

What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels.

A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Called to the throne by the voice of the people, my maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction of birth. It is this system of equality for which the European oligarchy detests me

Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?

Of all the peoples of Europe, Spaniards disgust me the least.

Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.