Anyone who can see as far as tomorrow in politics arouses the wrath of people who can see no farther than today.
Madame de StaelGoethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.
Madame de StaelThat past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.
Madame de Stael