Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

Prussia was hatched from a cannon-ball.