My star was fading, I felt the reins slipping out of my grasp, and could do nothing to stop it.
In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
The tools belong to the man who can use them.
Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.
Neglect of duty does not cease, by repetition, to be neglect of duty.
The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.