I have fought sixty battles, and I have learnt nothing which I did not know at the beginning.
I engage and after that I see what to do.
All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few common-place sentences put into bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.
The process of quitting smoking doesn't end with the last cigarette. It's not quitting itself, the real key is staying quit
Wherever flowers cannot be reared, there man cannot live.
If the Earth were a single state, Istanbul would be its capital.
Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.
The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory
When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.
There is no Nation however small which had the right to set itself free, that has not rescued itself from the dishonour of obeying the Prince imposed by an enemy in the hour of victory.
I drink Champagne when I win, to celebrate...and I drink Champagne when I lose, to console myself.
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
Nothing is more destructive than the charge of artillery on a crowd.
I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.
Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.
In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors.
The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes its extension, behold! It is upon this table: This book, surpassing all others. I never omit to read it, and every day with some pleasure.
Christ alone has succeeded in so raising the mind of man toward the unseen, that it becomes insensible to the barriers of time and space.
I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.
There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it.
There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.
A Constitution should be short and obscure.
If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.
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