My success and everything good that I have done, I owe to my mother.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

I know men, and I tell you, Jesus is more than a man. Comparison is impossible between Him and any other human being who ever lived, because He was the Son of God.

In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!

Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

You cannot treat with all the world at once.