Treaties are observed as long as they are in harmony with interests.

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

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.

Adversity is the midwife of genius

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

If you (to General Bertrand) do not perceive that Jesus Christ is God, very well; then I did wrong to make you a general.

In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors.