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

As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost.

The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.

One might as well try to charge through a wall.