A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.
The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.
The army is the true nobility of our country.
In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse.