Passions Change, Politics Are Immutable.

A Commander In Chief Ought To Say To Himself Several Times A Day: If The Enemy Should Appear On My Front, On My Right, On My Left, What Would I Do? And If The Question Finds Him Uncertain, He Is Not Well Placed, He Is Not As He Should Be, And He Should Remedy It.

A Revolution Can Be Neither Made Nor Stopped. The Only Thing That Can Be Done Is For One Of Several Of Its Children To Give It A Direction By Dint Of Victories.

I Am The Successor, Not Of Louis Xvi, But Of Charlemagne.

I Have Come To Realise That Men Are Not Born To Be Free.

I Do Not Amuse Myself By Thinking Of Dead People.