It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.

I do love this people [the French] with all my heart, and think that with a better religion and a better form of government and their present governors their condition and country would be most enviable.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.

The hole and the patch should be commensurate.

It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.

It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it.