We want a strong, growing economy

Methods are the masters of masters.

Nothing succeeds so well as success.

Regimes may fall and fail, but I do not.

It is not an event; it is a piece of news.

Wherever there's trouble, look for a priest.

The biggest threat to the regime is information.

You need, instead, to be defined by your values.

Politics is the systematic cultivation of hatred.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Espresso is to Italy, what champagne is to France.

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

A married man with a family will do anything for money.

Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait.

A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

Love is a reality which is born in the fairy region of romance.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.

I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.

There is one person that is wiser than anybody, and that is everybody.

What I have been taught, I have forgotten; what I know, I have guessed.

It is the beginning of the end. [Fr., C'est le commencement de al fin.]

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

As a historian I refuse to recognize an epochal boundary before the fact.

Canada doesn’t stand behind Israel; we stand shoulder-to-shoulder with it.

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.

God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.

Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself.

If you wish to be popular in society consent to be taught many things you already know.

Those who did not live during the years close to 1789 do not know the pleasure of living.

Women sometimes forgive a man who forces the opportunity, but never a man who misses ones.

I have made it a habit not to speculate over the psychological state of our elected leaders.

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all.

Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

Unfortunately the niveau of political culture is not particularly high in Poland - a relic of the communist past.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. [Fr., La parole a ete donnce a l'homme pour deguiser sa pensee.]

Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

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