“Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.”

“You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.”

“You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.”

“One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.”

“In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.”

“In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.”

“We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.”