It strengthens the bonds between nations to have the same civil laws and the same monetary system.
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.