A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.
The fate of a Nation may sometimes depend upon the position of a fortress.
Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille.
Equality should be the chief basis of the education of youth.
A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour.
Liberty and equality are magical words.
A victorious general must know how to employ severity, justness, and mildness by turns, if he would allay sedition or prevent it.
Victory and disaster establish indestructible bonds between armies and their commanders.
War is cruel to the people, and terrible to the conquered.
War justifies everything.
What my enemies call a general peace is my destruction. What I call peace is merely the disarmament of my enemies. Am I not more moderate than they?
I may lose a battle but I will never lose a minute.
I haven’t known 6 days of happiness in my life.
The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope.
My dominion ends where that of conscience begins.
It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying.
The keys of a fortress are always well worth the retirement of the garrison when it is resolved to yield only on those conditions. On this principle it is always wiser to grant an honorable capitulation to a garrison which has made a vigorous resistance than to risk an assault.
In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.
The Jews are the master robbers of the modern age.
Immortality is the best recollection one leaves.