Quotes by Cardinal Richelieu

• Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.
• 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.
• I was excellent. Everybody loved me. I love myself, and I like bums.
• Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.
• Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.
• War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.