November 10, 2025

Generosity is part of my character, and I therefore hasten to assure this government that I will never make an allegation of dishonesty against it

If you are involved in important affairs or seeking power, you must exaggerate your successes.

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. In other words, people will always say and do what their neighbours say and do, no matter what the law allows or forbids or has nothing to say on a subject.