The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.

In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality.

The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power - power in its most despotic exercise - absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms - and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses.

Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it.

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

I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.