When you disarm your subjects, however, you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you.

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

Change has no constituency.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

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

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

The prince must be a lion, but he must also know how to play the fox.