Cardinal Richelieu

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.

I was excellent. Everybody loved me. I love myself, and I like bums.

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.

Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.