"In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy"

"Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!"

"Prestige is the shadow of money and power"

"Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers"

"The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down"

"Power wears out those who don't have it"

"There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth"

"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon"

"Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles"

"History is a set of lies agreed upon"

"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"