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

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men;.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses.

I have never loved anyone for love's sake except, perhaps, Josephine - a little.

I wish I could take a raincheck on June 18.1815

How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die?

It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of curiosity than of real importance.