Statesman

Market forces operate selectively. Subsidies therefore must also be selective

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete

Mais la pensée collective est incapable de s’élever au-dessus du domaine des faits. C’est une pensée animale

Only those generals who gain successes can set up as dictators. What I now ask of you is military success, and I will risk the dictatorship

domestic-oriented instincts make lousy foreign policies

She underestimated or did not understand the extent to which a movement such as that of the British Labour Party is influenced by sentiment

Depuis quand un auteur a-t-il osé prétendre disposer du trésor public ?

the thoroughgoing analysis of Greek thought merged the science of law in the greater science of which it is properly a part, politics

διαφθείρονται … καὶ φέρειν οὐ παντὸς ἀνδρὸς εὐτυχίαν

κἂν ἄλλος τις ᾖ κρείττων κατ’ ἀρετὴν καὶ κατὰ δύναμιν τὴν πρακτικὴν τῶν ἀρίστων, τούτῳ καλὸν ἀκολουθεῖν καὶ τούτῳ πείθεσθαι δίκαιον