Leaders deal in hope.
History is the invention of historians.
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.
Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men;.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses.
He is almost a statesman. He lies well.