The Political Testament of Cardinal Richelieu Quotes

“While it is necessary so to support the nobles against those who would oppress them, it is also necessary to see that they in turn do not exploit those beneath them. It is a common enough fault of those born to this order to use violence in dealing with the common people whom God seems to have endowed with arms designed more for gaining a livelihood than for providing self-defense. It is most essential to stop any disorders of such a nature with inflexible severity so that even the weakest of your subjects, although unarmed, find as much security in the protection of your laws as those who are fully armed.”
― Henry Bertram Hill, The Political Testament of Cardinal Richelieu: The Significant Chapters and Supporting Selections

“Also, since the frailty of the human condition requires a counterweight in all things, which is, indeed, the foundation of all justice, it is most reasonable that the universities and the Jesuits should teach in emulation of each other, so that the competition might stimulate their virtue. The prosperity of the sciences would then be all the more assured to the country because if they are in the care of two guardians, one could carry on if the other should lose sight of its sacred charge.”
― Henry Bertram Hill, The Political Testament of Cardinal Richelieu: The Significant Chapters and Supporting Selections