How perilous it is to free a people who prefer slavery.

For one change always leaves a dovetail into which another will fit.

Politics have no relation to morals.

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.

The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they receive.

For the mob is always impressed by appearances and by results, and the world is composed of the mob.

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.