Cardinal Richelieu
Cardinal Richelieu

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.

Cardinal Richelieu
Cardinal Richelieu

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.

Cardinal Richelieu
Cardinal Richelieu

To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.

Cardinal Richelieu
Cardinal Richelieu

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

Cardinal Richelieu
Cardinal Richelieu

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.

Cardinal Richelieu
Cardinal Richelieu

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