Politics Quotes

"The duty of a statesman is to consider what will happen in the next generation."

"Politics is the art of managing human desires."

"Political systems must serve the people, not the reverse."

"Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a popular government."

"Obedience is what makes government possible."

"The question of government is a question of utility."

"The perfect government is that which produces the greatest aggregate happiness."

"Corruption is the price of useless secrecy."

"By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens."

"Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men will do the nastiest of things for the greatest good of everyone."

"We are not all Socialists, and we do not want to be."

"Self-interest and the public interest are frequently in conflict and cannot always be harmonized."

"There is nothing so disastrous as a rational policy pursued by a mad nation."

"It is the business of the State to reduce and to control the power of the capitalist, not to defer to it."

"True liberalism seeks to preserve order by decentralization rather than by centralization of power"

"Inflation is taxation without representation of the worst sort"

"The road to serfdom is paved with good intentions and centralized power"

"Politics is the art of managing human affairs without resorting to violence."

"Politics fails when it forgets that all policy ultimately affects real human beings."

"Society exists to facilitate our mutual self-interest, nothing more elevated."

"The state is but a convenience for managing competing material interests."

"The machine of state requires constant maintenance and repair."

"True liberalism is not socialism in disguise; it is the antithesis of socialism."

"The road to serfdom is paved with the intentions of those who believe they know better."

"Politics fails when it ignores different modes of perception."

"Taxation without representation has never existed; what has existed is misrepresentation."

"To the want of a constitution, all abuses are to be ascribed."

"The ideal constitution would be one impossible to corrupt."

"Laws are the conditions of society; without them there can be no society."

"Politics is the art of managing competing material interests."