Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. |
A leader is a dealer in hope. |
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. |
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. |
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. |
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. |
In politics stupidity is not a handicap. |
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. |
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god. |
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind. |
The human race is governed by its imagination. |
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. |
Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking. |
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. |
I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne. |
Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them. |
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots. |
When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes. |
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority. |
A true man hates no one. |