A Great Empire And Little Minds Go

A Perfect Democracy Is Therefore The Most Shameless Thing In The World.

Men Love To Hear Of Their Power, But Have An Extreme Disrelish To Be Told Their Duty.

All Writers On The Science Of Policy Are Agreed, And They Agree With Experience, That All Governments Must Frequently Infringe The Rules Of Justice To Support Themselves; That Truth Must Give Way To Dissimulation, Honesty To Convenience, And Humanity Itself To The Reigning Of Interest. The Whole Of This Mystery Of Iniquity Is Called The Reason Of State.

By Gnawing Through A Dike, Even A Rat May Drown A Nation.

Religion Is The Basis Of Civil Society, And The Source Of All Good And Of All Comfort.