Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.
We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.
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.
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
The heart of a statesman should be in his head.