The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.

Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.

Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything.

You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.

Leaders have to be dealers in hope.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.