This book will be a good gift to a thinking person who understands the importance and inevitability of the presence of politics in the life of each of us. From its pages come the voices of those who somehow made History in the last two and a half thousand years. Their well-aimed, sometimes contradictory statements help to understand with what tools politicians rule states. Caesar and Louis XIV, Peter I and Catherine II, Churchill and de Gaulle invite us to reflect on the great art of being a politician. This publication reminds us that a wise politician leaves behind not only a common set of witty quotes, but above all a solid state - a real masterpiece of his work.