The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.

The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope.

A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

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.