Battles are lost or won in 15 minutes
The unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon.
Kiss the feet of Popes provided their hands are tied.
Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.
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.
Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is near another who is glutted, it is impossible to reconcile the difference if there is not an authority who tells him to.