A leader is a dealer in hope.

The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread.

Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.

There shall be no Alps.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Necessity dominates inclination, will, and right.