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Every nation has the government that it deserves

Joseph de Maistre

Phraseologism: Every nation has the government that it deserves.

Meaning: If the government is bad, immoral, inefficient, then the citizens of the country themselves are to blame for this, they allow such a government to exist, cannot control it, etc.

Origin: From a letter (dated August 27, 1811) from the envoy of the Sardinian kingdom to the Russian court, Count Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821). In this letter, the count wrote to his government about the new laws established by Emperor Alexander I. It is possible that the Sardinian envoy paraphrased the well-known phrase of the philosopher and educator Charles Louis Montesquieu from his essay "The Spirit of the Laws": "Every nation is worthy of its fate." Joseph de Maistre spent 14 years in Russia (from 1803 to 1817), wrote the book St. Petersburg Evenings, which, like his other works, had a certain influence on the work of many Russian writers.

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Double-edged stick.

Meaning:

About what can end both well and badly.

Origin:

The expression retains the popular, now obsolete use of the preposition o in the meaning of "with" (cf. folk snake with seven heads), i.e. a stick with two ends means "a stick with two ends." The one who is hit with a stick can catch it, grab it and start hitting the opponent with the other end.

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