If you learn that a misfortune happens to one of us, ask, 'Did he die fighting ?' and if Yes, give thanks to God.

Victory or else death, there is nothing else for us; one or the other we must have.

All the world here is of that temper.
What! you would everybody sacrifice his life for the State, and you would not have your Brothers give the example?
Ah, my dear Sister, at this crisis, there is no room for bargaining.

Either at the summit of glorious success, or else abolished altogether.

This Campaign now coming is like that of Pharsalia for Rome, or that of Leuctra for the Greeks,"-- a Campaign we verily shall have to win, or go to wreck upon! [_OEuvres de Frederic,_ xxvii.i.