Politics Quotes

"Government is always unstable unless it depends upon the happiness of the governed."

"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps."

"The working men have no country."

"The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: abolish all private property."

"The state is nothing but an instrument of oppression of one class by another."

"The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them."

"Political order reflects the level of intellectual and moral development achieved."

"Politics at its best becomes applied ethics on a societal scale."

"The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it."

"The unchallenged ascendancy of the numerical majority is new in the world."

"The truth is, that the natural tendency of representative institutions is in so far to ennoble the character of the people."

"Society has now fairly got the better of individuality."

"The worth of a State is the worth of the individuals composing it."

"The love of power and the love of liberty cannot long subsist together."

"The surest test of the civilization of a people is the kind of decency they maintain in private relations."

"The state is nothing more than the organized expression of collective will."

"Political power must be justified by its service to the common good."

"Everything the state says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen."

"The journalist: a weakly, miserable, creeping thing, commissioned by the wealthy to do their bidding."

"Democracy is the degeneration of power."

"What is the use of a government that does not make its people happy?"

"The British Constitution is nothing but a mere phantom."

"The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing."

"It is useless to speak of restraint in government; the very nature of government is to exert force."

"In the vast domain of human action and human inquiry, there are few subjects of greater importance than legislation."

"Folly and presumption are the parents of all political misfortune."

"The most dangerous government is one that does not fear the people."

"Workers of the world, unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains"

"The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class"

"The people's revolution requires the transformation of the old state machine"