It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.
You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.
The word impossible is not French.
Power is what they like - it is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs.
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.