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.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.