In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

We should wash our dirty linen at home.

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.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.

A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.

I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.