In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

Wars are not won by evacuations.

The only way to win is to not be afraid of losing.

You have won battles without cannon, crossed rivers without bridges, made forced marches without shoes, camped without brandy and often without bread. Soldiers of liberty, only republican phalanxes [infantry troops] could have endured what you have endured.

Courage is the greatest virtue because it guarantees all the rest.

We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible. Our qualities and deeds must burn and glow through the gloom Europe until they become the veritable beacon oits salvation.