The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts of the revolutionary ideologues try to put on it, and which is full of dangers for the very existence of the states which make up the peninsula.

The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts of the revolutionary ideologues try to put on it, and which is full of dangers for the very existence of the states which make up the peninsula.

Error has never approached my spirit.

Any plan conceived in moderation must fail when the circumstances are set in extremes.

It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.

The events which can not be prevented, must be directed.

The obvious is always least understood.