politics
“The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad.”
“Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control.”
“The cause of war is preparation for war.”
“Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.”
“Learn ever to separate the king and the principle of royalty. The king is but man; royalty is the spirit of God.”
“Slavery is not abolished until the Black man has the ballot.”
“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them.”
“Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.”
“In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.”
“I have heard your complaints, but I have my own.”
“France has no friends, only interests.”
“Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.”
“How can you govern a country which has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?”
“If you feed the poor, you’re a saint. If you ask why they are poor, you’re a communist.”
“The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart.”
“Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.”
“The emancipation of the working class must be the act of the working class itself.”
“The state is not abolished—it withers away.”
“Working men of all countries, unite!”
“There has never been a country so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.”