პოლიტიკისათვის ადამიანი საშუალებაა, მორალისათვის კი _ მიზანი - Johann Gottfried Herder

The people need a master only as long as they have no understanding of their own. The more it acquires understanding, the more the government is bound to change its methods and to disappear. The most noble end of government is to become dispensable, so that everyone must govern himself.

Das Maschinenwerk der Revolutionen irret mich also nicht mehr: es ist unserm Geschlecht so nötig, wie dem Strom seine Wogen, damit er nicht ein stehender Sumpf werde. Immer verjüngt in neuen Gestalten, blüht der Genius der Humanität.

Die zwei größten Tyrannen der Erde, der Zufall und die Zeit.