Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything.
It is only with prudence, sagacity, and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished, and all obstacles surmounted. Otherwise nothing is accomplished.
Being in the Tuileries is not everything: what matters is to stay here.
In war it is not men, but the man who counts.
Leaders have to be dealers in hope.
We are nothing but by the law.