"In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions."

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"Make them fear you. Machiavelli said it nearly six hundred years ago, but it's still true. Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love is better, but fear will do the job."

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"Communism, I observed, "is a pile of wank."

"Help yourself with the state! It's on democracy!"

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