5 Cardinal Richelieu Quotes on Politics

Cardinal Richelieu quotes on politics

3. Savoir dissimuler est le savoir des rois.

5. Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.

7. I have never had any [enemies] other than those of the state.

10. One must believe neither the people of the palace, who ordinarily measure the power of the king by the shape of his crown, which, being round, has no end, nor those who, in the excesses of an indiscreet zeal, proclaim themselves openly as partisans of Rome.

12. Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.