Affair Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

— Honore de Balzac

We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us…

— Woodrow Wilson

Help me by whatever you are pleased to do in your provinces.

— Muqtada al Sadr

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight…

— Carl Sandburg

“For however strong you may be in respect of your army, it is essential that in entering a new Province you should have the…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Where consequence ceases, there folly, restlessness and misery begin.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

We no longer want to be a province that is unlike the others, we want to be a country [that will be] like the…

— Pierre Bourgault

It is in many circumstances a troubling thing to belong to the advanced class of a backward nation. One surrenders coherence and begins a…

— George W. S. Trow

...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and…

— Russell Kirk

There is a tendency in things to right themselves, and the war or revolution or bankruptcy that shatters rotten system, allows things to take…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“For, although one may be very strong in armed forces, yet in entering a province one has always need of the goodwill of the…

— Machiavelli, Niccolo