Cardinal Richelieu Quotes

“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”

“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”

“Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state”

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

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

“I am massively constrained by my position at No 10.”

Man is immortal, his salvation is hereafter, The state has no immortality, its salvation is now or never

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

To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.

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

Quotes by Cardinal Richelieu