If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.

Give me enough ribbons to place on the tunics of my soldiers and I can conquer the world.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

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.

Treason is a matter of dates.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

A Constitution should be short and obscure.