"A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to..." - Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

“It is the duty of a man of honor to teach others the good which he has not been able to do himself because of the malignity of the times, that this good finally can be done by another more loved in heaven.”

“The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.”

“There is nothing as likely to succeed as what the enemy believes you cannot attempt.”

“I always believe leaders are readers, so you've got to read 30 minutes a day of something that's going to inspire you.”

“The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the country which they represent: nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and so true as in them; nowhere so pure from a selfish infusion.”

“No one will ever get anywhere in this world unless he becomes a teacher, one who can show others how to do things.”

“I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas.”

“What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.”

“How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?”