Politics Quotes

"The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people."

John Stuart Mill

"Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself."

Potter Stewart

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."

"Politics is the art of making possible what is necessary."

Paul Valéry

"It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error."

Robert H. Jackson

"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it."

Learned Hand

"The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right."

Learned Hand

"Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants."

Louis Brandeis

"The most important political office is that of the private citizen."

Louis Brandeis

"Public life must be spiritualized."

Gopal Krishna Gokhale

"A king should be diligent in foreseeing the possibility of calamities, try to avert them before they arise, overcome those which happen, remove all obstructions to the economy."

Chanakya

"Indifferentism is the worst kind of disease that can affect people."

B. R. Ambedkar

"Democracy must in essence mean the art and science of mobilizing the entire physical, economic and spiritual resources of all the various sections of the people in the service of the common good of all."

"The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."

Thucydides

"He who has great power should use it lightly."

Seneca

"The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits."

Plutarch

"The government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us."

Leo Tolstoy

"State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters."

"Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well."

"The less government we have, the better."

"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison."

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."

Frederick Douglass

"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails... neither persons nor property will be safe."

Frederick Douglass