'The acquisition of Canada this year, as far as the neighbourhood of Québec, will be a mere matter of marching, and will give us experience for the attack of Halifax the next'
- Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Col William Duane, Monticello, 4 August 1812 .... so you see, there were Corleones here long before the sicilians landed ... it was a near thing, we came close to losing this g.w.n., it took every man and every ounce of effort to save it ... some thoughts from a florentino -
'A prince who is free to do as he pleases is unreasonable, and a people that is free to do as it pleases is not wise. If we consider princes restricted by laws and a people bound by laws, we will find greater quality in the people than in the princes. If we consider them both when unrestrained by laws, we will find the people making fewer and less weighty errors than princes, and possessing weightier remedies for them. A corrupt and disorderly multitude can be spoken to by some worthy person and can be easily brought around to the right way, but a bad prince cannot be spoken to by anyone, and the only remedy for his case is cold steel.'
- Niccolo Machiavelli |
