Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.