In English using #Kagi #Translate says: (about #Politics)
T.G.M.: "All reasonable and honest politics is the execution and consolidation of humanity both internally and externally; politics, like everything we do, must be consistently subordinated to ethical laws. I know there are politicians, especially those who consider themselves terribly practical and clever, who dislike this requirement; but experience, not only mine, I think, teaches that reasonable and honest politics, as Havlíček calls it, is the most effective and practical. In the end, so-called idealists are always right and do more for the state, for the nation, and for humanity than those politicians who are called realistic and clever. Clever fellows are, in the end, stupid."
K.Č.: "But in their time, idealists are not always right."
T.G.M.: "Sometimes not, sometimes yes; even in politics, the mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine..."
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