"Men rise from one ambition to another:..." - Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

“For this is the tragedy of man circumstances change, but he does not.”

“Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them. And I shall dare to say this also, that to have them and always to observe them is injurious, and that to appear to have them is useful; to appear merciful, faithful, humane, religious, upright, and to be so, but with a mind so framed that should you require not to be so, you may be able and know how to change to the opposite.”

“War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.”

“Imma be what I set out to be without a doubt undoubtedly.”

“I want a big career, a big man, and a big life. You have to think big - that's the only way to get it... I just couldn't stand being anonymous.”

“Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.”

“To be feared is much safer then to be loved.”

“Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.”

“Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence . . . the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake.”