"War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much genera...

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Every country has the government it deserves.
More Joseph de Maistre quotes
"Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.
"In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence. A kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: ...
"A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.
"I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.