Politics Quotes

"Constitutional democracy requires both majority rule and protection of minority rights."

"The state is the ethical substance made concrete"

"The state is the realized ethical idea"

"The legislative power is that which has a right to direct how the force of the commonwealth shall be employed."

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

"Government exists for the protection of the rights of people."

"They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that dislike it, call it heresy."

"Every man is supposed a knave."

"By art is created that great leviathan, called the commonwealth."

"Civil science is the geometry of the commonwealth."

"Political speculations are really the most delicate and uncertain of any science or profession"

"There is only one honest impulse at the heart of politics, that of improving people's lives"

"Political legitimacy depends on citizens' ability to understand and endorse the principles governing their society."

"Democratic equality requires that political power be shared equally among citizens."

"A constitution that protects basic liberties is essential to any just political system."

"In the great mercantile republic of Venice, we may observe a similar system."

"The complaint of every manufacturing nation against every other of underselling them in the foreign market by means of bounties, drawbacks, and other encouragements."

"When the duties upon the importation of foreign corn were at their height, the price of the home produce was as high."

"There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people."

"The best policy of the greater part of those who make poor laws, is to take no notice."

"The revenue of the state is the estate of the statesman."

"The state is the manifestation of ethical life in history."

"Politics is ethics made concrete in institutions."

"Private reason must yield to public authority in matters of state."

"Monarchy is the safest government."

"The social contract is a necessary evil for the preservation of peace."

"Private judgment and public reason must be reconciled through authority."

"Politics should serve the people, not the people the politics."

"Politics without virtue is corruption."

"The government which erodes the rights of people cannot expect their loyalty."