Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all.

Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors.

I may lose a battle but I will never lose a minute.

They wanted me to be a Washington.

An army marches on its stomach.

The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.

Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.