The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
Power over others is weakness disguised as strength.
If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.
Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.
Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when youmove, fall like a thunderbolt.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.
How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.
Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life.
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.
