You really are children. You have no idea how power works, or who has it, or what you can actually do with it

But she could see that she had wounded him. He had been stupid, but he was smart enough to recognize the fact

A true leader finds out what will be good for his people and then shapes laws that will help achieve that good purpose. If the people don't understand what he'…

You don't burn the house you want to dwell in. You don't sink the boat on which you ride

Ces deux moities de Dieu, le pape et l'empereur!

My so-called foreign friends do neither me nor the situation nor themselves any good when they try to bring me into opposition to the allegedly impossible Nati…

If you want to maintain the superiority of your state at the present time, you must quickly enter into a coalition with Germany and Italy and thus restrain Eur…