The men who make history have not time to write it.

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

In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old age.

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.

When Paris sneezes, Europe catches a cold.

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

Stability is not immobility.