I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.

In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

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

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.

You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.

A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.