The unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon.

I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.

You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.

Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.

The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.

Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.