Quotes & Sayings About Cavour

In politics nothing is so absurd as rancor. — Camillo Benso, Count Of Cavour

He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour . — Andrew Dickson White

I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me. — Camillo Di Cavour

European lotteries are the tax on fools. — Camillo Benso, Count Of Cavour

As Hobbes remarked, in war, force and fraud are the cardinal virtues, and he regarded international relations as always potentially a condition of war. Cavour, one of the creators of a united Italy in the nineteenth century, is reported as remarking: 'What scoundrels we would be if we had done for ourselves what we have done for our country. — Kenneth Minogue

The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes than he who distrusts them. — Camillo Di Cavour

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

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