I have never feared that the revolution would be engendered by the universities; but that at them a whole generation of revolutionaries must be formed, unless the evil is restrained, seems to me certain.... The greatest and consequently most urgent evil now is the press.... All journals, pamphlets in Germany must be under a censorship.

The events which can not be prevented, must be directed.

Italy is a geographical expression.

It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.

When Paris sneezes, Europe catches a cold.

The word 'freedom' means for me not a point of departure but a genuine point of arrival. The point of departure is defined by the word 'order.' Freedom cannot exist without the concept of order.

Men like M. de Talleyrand are like sharp instruments with which it is dangerous to play.