One can lead a nation only by helping it see a bright outlook. A leader is a dealer in hope.

A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.

The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.

If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation

Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same.

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.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.