One of my predecessors is said to have observed that in making his decisions he had to operate like a football quarterback - he could not very well call the next play until he saw how the last play turned out. Well, that may be a good way to run a football team, but in these days it is no way to run a government.

Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.

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

The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.

In order to fulfil the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.

If they have real grievances redress them, if possible; or acknowledge the justice of them, and your inability to do it at the moment. If they have not, employ the force of government against them at once.