Hence it comes that all armed prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed prophets have been destroyed.

It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the le…

From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wis…

If someone puts up the argument that King Louis gave the Romagna to Pope Alexander, and the kingdom of Naples to Spain, in order to avoid a war, I would answer…

A political country is like an American forest; you have only to cut down the old trees, and immediately new trees come up to replace them.

Nothing is so common as to see a political upheaval pass practically unnoticed merely because the names of the leaders and their parties remain the same.

The desire not to destroy the palace but to move into it oneself has always been the occupational curse of revolutionaries.