Be also proud of your success, proud of the results obtained, proud, above all, of being the well beloved children of that France which will ever continue a great nation, so long as it shall have a heart to comprehend noble causes, and men like yourselves to defend them.
Addressing French allies, he defines national greatness as having a heart for noble causes and men willing to defend them.
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