“Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.”

Government is cancerous in head and limbs;only its belly is sound, and the laws it excretes are the most strightforward shit in the world.

Love is blind; friendship tries not to notice.

Laws are like medicine; they generally cure an evil by a lesser or a passing evil.

Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.

Hounds follow those who feed them.

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it.

Nothing should be left to an invaded people except their eyes for weeping.

A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one.

Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world.

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

Politics is not an exact science.

In the 55-60 years of their rule, the successive Congress government have only looted the country and plunged it into poverty, casteism, regionalism, terrorism, and naxalism.

The AAP government has turned Delhi into a city of potholes and has hurt the sentiments of people of the city.

Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency.

There’s no need to be fearful of me. I am involved in the welfare of people and giving them good governance.

The youth should work on popularising central and state government schemes among people. The young generation should make social media their weapon.

I would say that in this world, the greatest source of inequality has been special privileges granted by government.

I will ensure that no criminal will ever get any political protection in my government. If anyone takes law in his hands, he would not be spared.

Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.