Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
We need a dramatically expanded use of statecraft.
The most perilous moment for a bad government is when it seeks to mend its ways. Only consummate statecraft can enable a king to save his throne when, after a long spell of oppression, he sets out to improve the lot of his subjects.
He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
When human statecraft attaches a chain to the feet of a free man, whom it makes a slave in contempt of nature and citizenship, eternal justice rivets the other end about the tyrant's neck.
The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.