Famous quotes containing the words republic, austria, government and/or politics:
“I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any mans virtues the means of deceiving him.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
“All the terrors of the French Republic, which held Austria in awe, were unable to command her diplomacy. But Napoleon sent to Vienna M. de Narbonne, one of the old noblesse, with the morals, manners, and name of that interest, saying, that it was indispensable to send to the old aristocracy of Europe men of the same connection, which, in fact, constitutes a sort of free- masonry. M. de Narbonne, in less than a fortnight, penetrated all the secrets of the imperial cabinet.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“The government is us; we are the government, you and I.”
—Theodore Roosevelt (18581919)
“In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (17491832)