When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.

For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.

All writers on the science of policy are agreed, and they agree with experience, that all governments must frequently infringe the rules of justice to support themselves; that truth must give way to dissimulation, honesty to convenience, and humanity itself to the reigning of interest. The whole of this mystery of iniquity is called the reason of state.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.