Political Sayings

America is ungovernable for us. He who serves a revolution plows in the sea.

However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

Whatever is in the universe is in the body of the devotee.

I hold the sun to be situated motionless in the center of the revolution of the celestial orbs while the earth revolves around the sun.

I have often wished that I had more time to devote to my favourite studies.

My movements to the chair of Government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

I think that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

The sovereign is absolute. This is the only form of government that can sustain a vast empire.

A government must be just, vigilant, and economical.

Where-ever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

The most important thing for a good government is not to govern too much.

The right of voting is the right of self-government.

The truth is, all politicians have an interest in the perpetuity of the forms of government, and none in the perpetuity of their substance.

I am not a slave to any system, nor a devotee to any sect.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

The very idea of the fabrication of a new government is enough to fill us with disgust and horror.

All government is a trust.

For God, we know, hath bid the man to rule: But in that right, not with a tyrannous hand.

Politics have no relation to morals.

I am a composer, not a politician.