Machiavelli's Teaching Would Hardly Have Stood The

I Mourn For The Stake Which Was Lost At Richmond More Deeply Than I Rejoice Over That Which Was Saved At Waterloo.

The Danger Is Not That A Particular Class Is Unfit To Govern: Every Class Is Unfit To Govern.

Guard Against The Prestige Of Great Names; See That Your Judgments Are Your Own; And Do Not Shrink From Disagreement; No Trusting Without Testing

Writers The Most Learned, The Most Accurate In Details, And The Soundest In Tendency, Frequently Fall Into A Habit Which Can Neither Be Cured Nor Pardoned,-the Habit Of Making History Into The Proof Of Their Theories.

Great Men Are Almost Always Bad Men, Even When They Exercise Influence And Not Authority...