The leader's role is to define reality, then give hope

Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything.

The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.

If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.

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.

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

The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread.