Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives.

All religions have been made by men.

The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.

Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights of the throne, and even social order itself.

My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money, as on the need to block for ever the march of the blacks in the world.

Patriotism is a word which represents a noble idea.

The leader's role is to define reality, then give hope