I shall not complain, since this notion is responsible for the good order that is prevailing, so that there is nothing that needs to be repressed. Passions change, politics are immutable. The policies of all powers are inherent in their geography. Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances. The heart of a statesman must be in his head.
Lack is more in means, than in principles.
High politic is only common sense applied to great things. Imagination governs the world. Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code. A Constitution should be short and obscure. A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.