How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die?

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.

Liberty and equality are magical words.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it.

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.