A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

Leaders deal in hope.

To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors.

It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.

I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.

Patriotism is a word which represents a noble idea.