Mirabeau Quotes

The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free man desires.

Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy.

Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.

When one meddles with the direction of a revolution, the problem is not how to make it go but how to keep it under control.

If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.

To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.

Nothing is impossible to the man who will

I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution.

Love has the power of making you believe what you would normally treat with the deepest suspicion.

I know you will guess all I leave unsaid.

Short absence quickens love; long absence kills it.

None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.

Never let me hear that foolish word again.

War is the national industry of Prussia.

Let me die to the sounds of the delicious music.

I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world.

In times of anarchy one may seem a despot in order to be a saviour.

Few persons comprehend the power of ugliness.

Religion is no more national than conscience.

The most chaste woman may be the most voluptuous, if she truly loves.

Not kings alone--the people, too, have their flatterers.

There are many things that are thorns to our hopes until we have attained them, and envenomed arrows to our hearts when we have.

It is intolerance to speak of toleration. Away with the word from the dictionary!

Nothing is impossible to the man that can will. Is that necessary? That shall be. This is the only law of success.