Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it.

Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.

To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes

Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and Jesus. The Ariyans and some other sects had disturbed the tranquility of the east by agitating the question of the nature of the Father, the son, and the Holy Ghost. Muhammad declared that there was none but one God who had no father, no son and that the trinity imported the idea of idolatry.

The leader's role is to define reality, then give hope

Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers.

In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them.