Yes. Imagination governs the world.[769]

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.^[770]— Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

Revolutions are temporary disturbances in the life of states... Order always ends up by reclaiming its own; states do not die like individuals, they transform themselves. It is the task of statesmanship...to guide this transformation and to supervise its direction^[771]— Clemens Wenzell von Metternich (1773-1859)

The function of the state consists of simultaneously assuring the triumph of order over anarchy and reforming what is no longer in accord with the exigencies of the time.^[772]— Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)