France needs nothing so much to promote her regeneration as good mothers.

Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all.

On victory, you deserve beer. On defeat, you need it.

The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.

A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.

Give me enough medals and I’ll win you any war

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