Who Saves His Country Violates No Law.

A King Is Sometimes Obliged To Commit Crimes; But They Are The Crimes Of His Position.

Military Despotism Represses Generous Sentiments, Priestly Tyranny Stifles Them.

To Make Yourself Understood To People, One Must First Speak To Their Eyes

The Most Insupportable Of Tyrannies Is That Of Inferiors.

A Commander-in-chief Cannot Take As An Excuse For His Mistakes In Warfare An Order Given By His Sovereign Or His Minister When The Person Giving The Order Is Absent From The Field Of Operations And Is Imperfectly Aware Or Wholly Unaware Of The Latest State Of Affairs. It Follows That Any Commander-in-chief Who Undertakes To Carry Out A Plan Which He Considers Defective Is At Fault; He Must Put Forward His Reasons, Insist On The Plan Being Changed, And Finally Tender His Resignation Rather Than Be The Instrument Of His Army's Downfall.