In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.

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

France has more need of me than I have need of France.

Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.

Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

Unavailable wars are always just.