When Paris catches cold, all Europe sneezes.

Italy is a geographical expression.

I am a rock of order.

What I wanted was simple: to preserve what existed.

Man is by nature a political animal.

-- Aristotle

Unless philosophers rule as kings, or kings genuinely philosophize, there will be no end to troubles for states.

-- Plato

Westward the course of empire takes its way.

-- George Berkeley

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

-- Karl Marx

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.

-- John Stuart Mill

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.

-- John Locke