Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.

The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.

It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.

Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.

Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.