politics Quotes

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.

When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred.

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.

All the Chinese have to do is fly around the Moon and back, and they'll appear to have won the return to the Moon with humans. They could put one person on the surface of the Moon for one day and he'd be a national hero.