I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

Present wars impoverish the lords that win as much as those that lose.

Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain.

Change has no constituency.

One arises from a low to a high station more often by using fraud instead of force.

it is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.