“La guerre est une affaire d'une importance vitale pour l'État.”
L'Art de la guerre
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“Les affaires d'hommes n'ont rien à voir avec la guerre.”
Chevauchée avec le diable, 1987

The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it; and a State which postpones the interests of their mental expansion and elevation, to a little more of administrative skill, or that semblance of it which practice gives, in the details of business; a State, which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes, will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished; and that the perfection of machinery to which it has sacrificed everything, will in the end avail it nothing, for want of the vital power which, in order that the machine might work more smoothly, it has preferred to banish.
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De la liberté

« Il faut défendre la société » — Cours au Collège de France, 1976, Cours du 4 février 1976