If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.
Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.
There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.
Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.