Catherine the Great People Quotations

Tell a thousand people to draft a letter, let them debate every phrase, and see how long it takes and what you get.

The most sure, but at the same time the most difficult expedient to mend the morals of the people, is a perfect system of education.

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful. Marguerite, Countess of Blessington I praise loudly; I blame softly.

Experience shows that the frequent use of severe punishment has never rendered a people better. The death of a criminal is a less effective means of restraining crimes than the permanent example of a man deprived of his liberty during the whole of his life to make amends for the injury he has done to the public.

I am one of the people who love the why of things.