The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory
Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.
It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.
They wanted me to be a Washington.
A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it.
Success is the most convincing talker in the world.