Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour famous quotes

What scoundrels we would be if we did for ourselves what we are ready to do for Italy.
-- Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

#Patriotism #Would Be #Scoundrels

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them.
-- Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

#Mistake #Men #Trust Issues

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
-- Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

#Sarcastic #Art #Truth

Lotteries, a tax upon imbeciles.
-- Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

#Statistics #Imbeciles #Taxes

In politics nothing is so absurd as rancor.
-- Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

#Politics #Absurd #Rancor

In a word, the free Church in a free State has been the programme which led me to my first efforts, and which I continue to regard as just and true, reasonable and practical, after the studies of thirty years.
-- Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

#Years #Effort #Religion

European lotteries are the tax on fools.
-- Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour

#Gambling #Fool #Taxes

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.

Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created.

The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes", And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be "No."

Nothing in life was as precious as this woman. It never would be. I’d found my happiness.

Do not be fooled by your youthful appearance for very soon it would be taken away from you.

They (ACS) lie like scoundrels.

Dave Rudabaugh is an ignorant scoundrel! I disapprove of his very existence. I considered ending it myself on several occasions but self-control got the better of me.