The question may be summed up in two words: safety, which will cost you money; or economy, which may cost you your existence!" "You are proposing an army of Praetorians." "The name is not the thing.

I only promise you that if you pay your soldiers well, they'll be faithful to you." "The Praetorians often turned against the Emperors." "Because the Emperors were silly enough to pay them ready money." "But is there no motive in this world nobler than interest?
And is money the only lasting tie that binds soldiers to their standard ?" "I should not be a Frenchman, if I held such a belief.

I advised you to increase your soldiers' pay, because hitherto your army has been recruited by money alone; and also because money is that which it costs you the least to obtain, and consequently that which you will the most willingly part with.

Well then, now that you have given me the few millions I required for the purpose of attaching your soldiers to the Pontifical Government, furnish me with the means of raising them in their own estimation and in that of the people.

Honour them, in order that they may become men of honour.