The confidence with which a Sovereign is invested, is solid only when it is sanctioned by the suffrages of the people, who clothed him with the supreme magistracy.
An order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood.
The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.
The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.
Power is what they like – it is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs.
Oh Man, Man. How despicable in slavery, how great when fired with the love of freedom!
The best generals are those who have served in the artillery.
Why and how are words so important that they cannot be too often used.
I would rather have a general who was lucky than one who was good.
A starving army is actually worse than none.
Mankind’s worst enemy is fear of work.
Soldiers! Forty centuries behold you!
I shall be an Attila to Venice.
They wanted me to be a Washington.
I engage and after that I see what to do.
I have fought sixty battles, and I have learnt nothing which I did not know at the beginning.
A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.
The populace judges of the power of God by the power of the priests.
Insubordination may only be the evidence of a strong mind.
You think you are too intelligent to believe in God. I am not like you.