The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope.

After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.

An army which cannot be reenforced is already defeated.

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

It is rare that a legislature reasons. It is too quickly impassioned.