If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures.

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.