It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.

The state is not an organism capable of bringing either moral or material improvements to the populace...but merely a vehicle of power for the men and party in power.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

A government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted.

The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers; for gold alone will not procure good soldiers, but good soldiers will always procure gold.

All the States and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedoms.