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 men who make history have not time to write it.

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

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

Stability is not immobility.

Italy is a geographical expression.

Error has never approached my spirit.