When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
We should wash our dirty linen at home.
In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power.
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.
Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.