Table Talk

QUOTATION: The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are,

 

ATTRIBUTION: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), British poet, critic. repr. In Collected Works, vol. 14, ed. Kathleen Coburn (1990). "Table Talk," Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. Henry Nelson Coleridge (1835).