Quote collection
864 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men;.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses."
"Space we can recover; time never."
"Time is the great art of man."
"War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors."
"Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight."
"Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers."
"Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment."
"Providence is always on the side of the last reserve."
"Called to the throne by the voice of the people, my maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction of birth. It is this system of equality for which the European oligarchy detests me"
"If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow."
"Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible."
"In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats."
"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 bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world."
"One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent."
"I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets."
"In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them."
"A general must be a charlatan."
"A starving army is actually worse than none."
"The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory"