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• Cunning and deceit will every time serve a man better than force. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
• There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
  -- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), "The Prince...
• Men, iron, money and bread are the strength of the war, but of these four, the first two are the most necessary
  because men and iron find money and bread, but bread and money find not men and iron....
• Though fraud in other activities be detestable, in the management of war it is laudable and glorious, and he who overcomes an enemy by fraud is as much to be praised as he who does so by force.
  -- Niccolo Machiavelli...
• Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
• It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
• Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.
  -- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)...
• A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
  -- Niccolo Machiavelli...
• Men are apt to deceive themselves in big things, but they rarely do so in particulars.
  -- Niccolo Machiavelli...