Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.

Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.

An army travels on its stomach. Soup makes the soldier.

America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.

More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.