Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people.

A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root.

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.

The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.