Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

The Pacts and Covenants, by which the parts of this Body Politique were at first made, set together, and united, resemble that Fiat, or the Let us make man, pronounced by God in the Creation.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

The first author of speech was God himself, that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as He presented to his sight.

A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the government over speech and press.