"Change has no constituency...." - Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

“In war, discipline can do more than fury.”

“For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.”

“Although deceit is detestable in all other things, yet in the conduct of war it is laudable and honorable; and a commander who vanquishes an enemy by stratagem is equally praised with one who gains victory by force.”

“But these are flowers that fly and all but sing:And now from having ridden out desireThey lie closed over in the wind and clingWhere wheels have freshly sliced the April mire.”

“The thinking it took to get us into this mess is not the same thinking that is going to get us out of it.”

“But O, sick children of the world,Of all the many changing thingsIn dreary dancing past us whirled,To the cracked tune that Chronos sings,Words alone are certain good.”

“I have not hesitated to call the system of Government under which we are labouring 'satanic' and I withdraw naught out of it.”

“I was not born to be forced.”

“We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.”