In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse. We are members of a powerful monarchy , but today we feel only the vices of its constitution. When I had the honor to be a second lieutenant, I ate dry bread, but I never let anyone know that I was poor. My success and everything good that I have done, I owe to my mother .
Great men are meteors destined to burn up the earth.
I am a soldier and accustomed to risking my life every day. A revolution is an opinion that has acquired some bayonets. I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.