No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.
I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated...
Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will...
Use a thousand ways to boost rural income and decrease peasants' burden.
