A leader is a dealer in hope.

Religion is, in fact, the dominion of the soul; it is the hope, the anchor of safety, the deliverance from evil. What a service has Christianity rendered to humanity!

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin.

After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.

Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance, and good use of both.

The world soffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.