Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet capricious as it is, it is nevertheless much more often true, reasonable, and just, than we imagine.
What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion.
All religions have been made by men.
Washington is dead! This great man fought against Tyranny; he established the liberty of his country. His memory will always be dear to the French people, as it will be to all free men of the two worlds; and especially to French soldiers, who, like him and the American soldiers, have combated for liberty and equality.
The sovereignty of the people is inalienable.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
A starving army is actually worse than none.
It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten.
Liberty and equality are magical words.
Men soon get tired of shedding their blood for the advantage of a few individuals, who think they amply reward the soldiers perils with the treasures they amass.
Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.
I know men, and I tell you, Jesus is more than a man. Comparison is impossible between Him and any other human being who ever lived, because He was the Son of God.
In war as in love, to bring matters to a close, you must get close together.
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.
There is no real force without justice.
Be successful! I judge men only by the results of their actions.
In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them.
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.
He that makes war without many mistakes has not made war very long.
The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
We are either kings or pawns of men
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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