Politics Quotes

"The state is the coldest of all cold monsters."

"A revolutionary will always become a conservative on the day after the revolution."

"The politics of virtue is the only true politics."

"In states matters must submit to necessity, and not necessity to the measures that states have taken."

"To understand political power aright we must trace its original."

"The true contrast is not between democracy and authority; the real question is how to make authority tolerable."

"Politics must serve the common good."

"Politics shapes the destiny of nations."

"Greed and ambition have led to the downfall of empires."

"Politics without wisdom leads to destruction."

"I am sorry I cannot wish you success in an application to the throne, on the ground of political principles."

"Two sovereignties cannot exist in the same state."

"The good of one's own state, which manifests itself in the preservation and the increase of its wealth, power and security, is to be pursued above all else."

"Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism."

"The multiplication of laws constantly increases the rights of the executive at the expense of liberty."

"The credit of the government depends on the confidence of the people."

"Tis necessary therefore, that the supreme power be limited."

"Politics should serve the people, not control them."

"Politics divorced from ethics is a tyranny disguised as governance."

"Politics should be guided by reason and justice."

"Politics should elevate humanity toward justice."

"Laws are formed by human convention, not by nature."

"Mankind is greater than the individual; the individual must serve the greater good."

"A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed."

"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."

"The government must be established upon the consent of the governed."

"The less government we have, the better—so long as we have justice."

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

"Politics without ethics is the tyranny of the many over the few."

"Politics without ethics is tyranny dressed in law."