If you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.
To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.
They wanted me to be a Washington.
Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency.
The word impossible is not French.
The heart of a statesman should be in his head.