Power Ought To Serve As

I Never Listen To Calumnies, Because If They Are Untrue I Run The Risk Of Being Deceived, And If They Be True, Of Hating Persons Not Worth Thinking About.

Each Particular Society Begins To Feel Its Strength, Whence Arises A State Of War Between Different Nations.

Great Commanders Write Their Actions With Simplicity; Because They Receive More Glory From Facts Than From Words.

The Culminating Point Of Administration Is To Know Well How Much Power, Great Or Small, We Ought To Use In All Circumstances.

That Anyone Who Possesses Power Has A Tendency To Abuse It Is An Eternal Truth. They Tend To Go As Far As The Barriers Will Allow.