To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes

Leaders deal in hope.

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.

If you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

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