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.

There is no Nation however small which had the right to set itself free, that has not rescued itself from the dishonour of obeying the Prince imposed by an enemy in the hour of victory.

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

A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.

The logical end to defensive warfare is surrender.

In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.