"Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others."

"The Roman state was ruined by the ambition of the people as much as by the ambition of the nobility."

"For where the very safety of the country depends upon the resolution to be taken, no considerations whatever of justice or injustice, humanity or cruelty, nor of glory or disgrace, should be allowed t…"

"God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us."

"The vulgar are always taken by appearances and by the outcome of a thing; and in the world there are only the vulgar."