Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon.

The Concordat is not the victory of any one party but the consolidation of 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.

What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.

The human race is governed by its imagination.