I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

Je veux que les paysans mettent la poule au pot tous les dimanches.

Patriotism must be founded on great principals and supported by great virtue.

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.

It is in the midst of disasters that bold men grow bolder.

I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.