Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.

Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men;.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses.

The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.

There is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognise the hand of fate