“To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.”

“Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.”

“War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.”

“You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.”

“They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.”

“A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.”