Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.

Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and, when got, the repose is insupportable.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

We had all become used to the totalitarian system and accepted it as an unchangeable fact and thus helped to perpetuate it. In other words, we are all - though…

Politics is history in the making.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.