The word impossible is not French.

Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is near another who is glutted, it is impossible to reconcile the difference if there is not an authority who tells him to.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Europe thus divided into nationalities freely formed and free internally, peace between States would have become easier: the United States of Europe would become a possibility.

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

Prussia was hatched from a cannon-ball.

The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow.