Every country has the government it deserves.

Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle mérite.

Joseph de Maistre

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Government Political culture Political theory

Author

Joseph de Maistre

Medium

Letter

Language

French

Time

1811 1810s 19th century

Occupation

Philosopher Writer

From

France Europe

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Citation

Maistre, Joseph De. Lettres et Opuscules Inédits de Leibniz. Paris: Lagrange, 1854, letter 76. Originally a letter about Russia's new constitutional laws, 27 Aug. 1811.

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On Conciliation with America
Medium
Speech
Genre
Political speech
Language
English
Time
1775 1770s 18th century
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Burke, Edmund. "Speech on Conciliation with America." House of Commons. 22 Mar. 1775, Palace of Westminster, Westminster, London, England, UK.

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Another quote originally in French

Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which compose it, if moreover this intelligence were vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in the same formula both the movements of the largest bodies in the universe and those of the lightest atom; to it nothing would be uncertain. And the future as the past would be present to its eyes.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

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Predicting the future Determinism

Author

Pierre-Simon Laplace
Source
A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities
Language
French
Time
1812 1810s 19th century
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Citation

Laplace, Pierre-Simon. Theorie Analytique des Probabilities [Analytic Theory of Probability]. Paris: Madame Va Courcier, 1812.