Great Commanders Write Their Actions With Simplicity;

In Constitutional States, Liberty Is Compensation For Heavy Taxes; In Dictatorships, The Subsititue Is Light Taxes.

They Who Love To Inform Themselves, Are Never Idle. Though I Have No Business Of Consequence To Take Care Of, I Am Nevertheless Continually Employed. I Spend My Life In Examining Things: I Write Down In The Evening Whatever I Have Remarked, What I Have Seen, And What I Have Heard In The Day: Every Thing Engages My Attention, And Every Thing Excites My Wonder: I Am Like An Infant, Whose Organs, As Yet Tender, Are Strongly Affected By The Slightest Objects.

I Should Like To Abolish Funerals; The Time To Mourn A Person Is At His Birth, Not His Death.

If I Knew Of Something That Could Serve My Nation But Would Ruin Another, I Would Not Propose It To My Prince, For I Am First A Man And Only Then A Frenchman... Because I Am Necessarily A Man, And Only Accidentally Am I French.

When God Endowed Human Beings With Brains, He Did Not Intend To Guarantee Them.