Politics Quotes

"Legislation must aim at producing the greatest happiness of society."

"Democracy is the form of government most likely to produce the greatest happiness."

"Men do not actually consent to the laws that bind them; they obey from necessity."

"The state exists to promote the well-being of its citizens, nothing more."

"The test of a first-rate government is whether it serves the happiness of all people."

"Lawyers are the great obstacles to reform and social improvement."

"A constitution should be designed to produce the greatest happiness of the greatest number."

"Government should be simple, economical, and directed to the public good."

"The end of the law is the greatest happiness of those who are ruled by it."

"Laws should be clear, simple, and publicly known to all citizens."

"The principle of utility is the only rational foundation for legislation."

"To promote the general happiness is the final end of government."

"A government that ignores the happiness of its citizens is a tyranny."

"Legislation without a clear purpose is mere tyranny disguised as law."

"The best government is that which governs least and produces the most happiness."

"The primary duty of government is to identify and eliminate sources of public misery."

"A government that serves only the interests of the wealthy is a government that has failed."

"Laws are justified only insofar as they serve to increase the happiness of the governed."

"The working class is the only class capable of initiating a revolution."

"Society as a whole is more and more breaking up into two great hostile camps: bourgeoisie and proletariat."

"Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel."

"A spectre is haunting Europe, the spectre of communism."

"The state is an instrument of coercion in the hands of the ruling class."

"Capitalism breeds its own destruction through its internal contradictions."

"A kingdom is an empire of laws and not of men."

"The state is the highest expression of human society."

"The state must be conceived as an organism."

"The state protects property and enforces contracts."

"The rules of society exist to serve humanity, not to be served by it."

"Politics is the art of making the impossible possible through collective will."