What they want is glory, the gratification of vanity--they know nothing about liberty.

Look at the army! Our successes just obtained, our triumphs have already brought out the true character of the French soldier.

I am all for him.

Let the Directory deprive me of the command and it will see if it is master.

The nation needs a chief, one who is famous though his exploits, and not theories of government, phrases and speeches by ideologists, which Frenchmen do not comprehend....