Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men;.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses.

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

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 wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found.

Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.