1. [. . .] The philosophy of Plato, which is the human preface of the Gospel [. . .]
St Petersburg Dialogues: Or Conversations on the Temporal Government of Providence
2. A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.
Considerations on France
3. Every country has the government it deserves.
4. Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
5. War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.
