Power is what they like - it is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs.

No amount of money will induce someone to lay down their life, but they will gladly do so for a bit of yellow ribbon.

It strengthens the bonds between nations to have the same civil laws and the same monetary system.

After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.

Medicines are only fit for old people.