politics Quotes

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.