It's the people who are in the wrong who get angry.

My true glory is not to have won 40 battles ... Waterloo will erase the memory of so many victories, ... But ... what will live forever, is my Civil Code.

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 am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

No amount of money will induce someone to lay down their life, but they will gladly do so for a bit of yellow ribbon.

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.