A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.
Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.
Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.
There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.
I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them.