Politics Quotes

"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god."

"Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder."

"Government is instituted for the common good."

"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself."

"Government has no other end but the preservation of property."

John Locke

"Wherever law ends, tyranny begins."

John Locke

"The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens."

Alexis de Tocqueville

"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America."

Alexis de Tocqueville

"Liberty is the right to do what the law permits."

Montesquieu

"There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice."

Montesquieu

"The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does."

Maurice Barrès

"Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word."

Charles de Gaulle

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

"Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate."

"Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process."

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

"Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come."

Victor Hugo

"An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought."

Simon Cameron

"Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men."

George Jean Nathan

"Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote."

George Jean Nathan

"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time."

E. B. White

"Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people."

Harry Emerson Fosdick

"Voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves, one another, this country and this world."

Sharon Salzberg

"There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers."

"Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less."