Although I am not a legalist when it comes to the conquest of power, I am one when it comes to the exercise of power. If parliamentary processes result in our being called upon to exercise power within the framework of existing institutions, we should do so legally and fairly without taking advantage of our presence in government to fraudulently transform the exercise of power into the conquest of power.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Although I am not a legalist when it comes to the conquest of power, I am one when it comes to the exercise of power. If parliamentary processes result in our being called upon to exercise power within the framework of existing institutions, we should do so legally and fairly without taking advantage of our presence in government to fraudulently transform the exercise of power into the conquest of power." in the context of "Speech to the Bellevilloise Congress of the Socialist Party (January 1926), quoted in Jean Lacouture, Léon Blum (1979), p. 206" to mean that wisdom is timeless.