Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.

- Camillo Benso, Count Of Cavour

European lotteries are the tax on fools.

- Camillo Benso, Count Of Cavour

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.

- Camillo Benso, Count Of Cavour

What scoundrels we would be if we did for ourselves what we are ready to do for Italy.

- Camillo Benso, Count Of Cavour

In politics nothing is so absurd as rancor.

- Camillo Benso, Count Of Cavour

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.

- Camillo Benso, Count Of Cavour

In a word, the free Church in a free State has been the programme which led me to my first efforts, and which I continue to regard as just and true, …

- Camillo Benso, Count Of Cavour