Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cities where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break.

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

There can never be peace between nations until there is first known that true peace which is within the souls of men.

I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes however we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery and it is intellectually dishonest.

Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.

I shall never be a heretic I may err in dispute but I do not wish to decide anything finally on the other hand I am not bound by the opinions of men.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

The hate of men will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die liberty will never perish.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.