Politics Quotes

"We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers."

Emmeline Pankhurst

"Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."

Thomas Jefferson

"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one."

A. J. Liebling

"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."

Tacitus

"Two things only the people anxiously desire – bread and circuses."

Juvenal

"Who will guard the guards themselves?"

Juvenal

"Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people."

Henry Clay

"I would rather be right than be President."

Henry Clay

"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."

"Just as fish moving under water cannot possibly be found out either as drinking or not drinking water, so government servants employed in government work cannot be found out while taking money."

Chanakya

"A single wheel can never move; so a king should employ ministers and hear their opinion."

Chanakya

"Every Indian should now forget that he is a Rajput, a Sikh or a Jat. He must remember that he is an Indian."

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel

"Whatever the Constitution may or may not provide, the welfare of the country will depend upon the way in which the country is administered."

Rajendra Prasad

"We must not be content with mere political democracy. We must make our political democracy a social democracy as well."

B. R. Ambedkar

"The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction."

Jawaharlal Nehru

"The spirit of democracy cannot be imposed from without. It has to come from within."

"Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims."

"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution."

Hannah Arendt

"Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent."

Hannah Arendt

"The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."

Thomas Hobbes

"The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse."

Edmund Burke

"All government – indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act – is founded on compromise and barter."

Edmund Burke

"Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking."

"Good government obtains when those who are near are made happy, and those who are far off are attracted."

Confucius