I Don't Employ Talleyrand When I Want

A People That Is Able To Say Everything, Becomes Able To Do Everything. The Crowd Which Follows Me With Admiration, Would Run With The Same Eagerness Were I Marching To The Guillotine.

While I Live I Will Never Resort To Irredeemable Paper.

A Government Protected By Foreigners Will Never Be Accepted By A Free People.

One Must Indeed Be Ignorant Of The Methods Of Genius To Suppose That It Allows Itself To Be Cramped By Forms. Forms Are For Mediocrity, And It Is Fortunate That Mediocrity Can Act Only According To Routine. Ability Takes Its Flight Unhindered.

Great Ambition Is The Passion Of A Great Character.