A man becomes the creature of his uniform.
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.
Oh well, no matter what happens, there’s always death.
Force is the law of animals, men are ruled by conviction.
In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.
Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration.
I have seen only yoU, I have admired only yoU, I desire only You.
Give me an educated mother, I shall promise you the birth of a civilized, educated nation.
He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.
Nothing is more destructive than the charge of artillery on a crowd.
Vengeance is without foresight.
That man made me miss my destiny.
The reason I beat the Austrians is, they did not known the value of five minutes.
The bullet that will kill me is not yet cast.
I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.
Wherever flowers cannot be reared, there man cannot live.
When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
Alexander, Charlemagne and myself all tried to found an empire on force and we failed. Jesus Christ is building an empire on love, and today there are millions of people who would gladly die for His sake.
The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.
Called to the throne by the voice of the people, my maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction of birth. It is this system of equality for which the European oligarchy detests me.