"Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them."

"Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything."

"I must see her and press her to my heart. I love her to the point of madness, and I cannot continue to be separated from her. If she no longer loved me, I would have nothing left to do on earth."

"The heart of a statesman must be in his head."

"True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat."

"When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose."

"The first quality for a commander-in-chief is a cool head to receive a correct impression of things. He should not allow himself to be confused by either good or bad news."

"There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed."

"The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man."

"A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it."

"France has more need of me than I have need of France."

"The surest way to remain poor is to be honest."

"A Constitution should be short and obscure."

"Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them."

"Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them."

"A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets."

"I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne."

"The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need."

"Respect the burden."

"Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking."

"Medicines are only fit for old people."

"The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague."

"A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view."

"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."

"England is a nation of shopkeepers."

"The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know."

"Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities."

"I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other."

"The human race is governed by its imagination."

"A true man hates no one."

"History is a set of lies agreed upon."

"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent."

"Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment."

"The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny."

"The French complain of everything, and always."

"Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it."

"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely."

"Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy."

"Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools."

"Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight."

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."

"We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him."

"It requires more courage to suffer than to die."

"To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god."

"There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time."

"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it."

"A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights."

"When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity."

"The word impossible is not in my dictionary."

"Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets."