War is the business of barbarians.
France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.
It is necessary for the heart to feel as for the body to be fed.
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.
History is the invention of historians.
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.
Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to him. When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
Nothing is so important in war as an undivided command.
I may lose a battle but I will never lose a minute.
Better live a King, than a Prince.
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.
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 barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile.
A starving army is actually worse than none.
What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion.
There is no real force without justice.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Collective crimes incriminate no one.
A man like me troubles himself little about a million men.
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.
In war as in love, to bring matters to a close, you must get close together.
True heroism consists in rising superior to misfortune.
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.
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