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- In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
- If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
- History is a set of lies agreed upon.
- In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
- Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
- I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out…
- Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
- To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to…
- Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
- A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
- He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
- Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
- Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
- One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
- A Constitution should be short and obscure.
- The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.
- Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.
- The heart of a statesman should be in his head.
- The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes its extension, behold!…
- Muhammad was a great man, an intrepid soldier; with a handful of men he triumphed at the battle of Bender (sic); a great captain, eloquent,…
- Great men are never cruel without necessity.
- Force is the law of animals, men are ruled by conviction.
- A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers.
- There is no strength without justice.
- Men who have changed the world never achieved their success by winning the chief citizens to their side, but always by stirring the masses.
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