"Whoever takes it upon himself to establish..." - Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

“You must never believe that the enemy does not know how to conduct his own affairs. Indeed, if you want to be deceived less and want to bear less danger, the more the enemy is weak or the less the enemy is cautious, so much more must you esteem him.”

“For the mob is always impressed by appearances and by results, and the world is composed of the mob.”

“Decide which is the line of conduct that presents the fewest drawbacks and then follow it out as being the best one, because one never finds anything perfectly pure and unmixed, or exempt from danger.”

“Nothing is surer than that the people will be weak.”

“Who would find out that I am a natural fool if I kept always cool and never let nature come to the surface? Nobody.”

“In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it.”

“In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties.”

“I can guarantee that not because I give Attorney General [Loretta] Lynch a directive. That is institutionally how we have always operated. I do not talk to the attorney general about pending investigations [On Hillary Clinton].”

“I only wish, while I am a servant of the public, to know the will of my masters, that I may govern my self accordingly.”