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Quote 3574
The most curious point about the Cabinet is that so very little is known about it.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3573
A Cabinet is a combining committee.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3571
There is a great difficulty in the way of a writer who attempts to sketch a living Constitution - a Constitution that is in actual work and power.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3569
I had no competitor, none to dispute sovereignty or command with me.by: Daniel DefoeShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3568
I was lord of the whole manor; or, if I pleased, I might call myself king or emperor over the whole country which I had possession of.by: Daniel DefoeShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3562
All arguments are ended.by: Oliver CromwellShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3560
Here are ten lines of the bitterest damnation that ever came from the mind of treason.by: Oliver CromwellShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3559
The sword of judgment.by: Oliver CromwellShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3558
We attack not faiths or opinions, but despotism.by: Oliver CromwellShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3557
We mislike no bishops save that they stand by a tyrannous church.by: Oliver CromwellShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3556
All tyrannies must go together.by: Oliver CromwellShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3555
It is plain sense.by: Oliver CromwellShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3554
What in the name of God is this?by: Oliver CromwellShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3549
Success is certain when all free peoples are in array against the last convulsions of savagery.Showing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3547
France is making incredible sacrifices every day.Showing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3543
Do not then lay bare the evil condition of Hellas, by calling the powers together when they will not obey, or undertaking a war which you will be unable to carry on.by: DemosthenesShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3541
We must, therefore, take care not to allow the Spartans to attain a formidable degree of strength.by: DemosthenesShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3540
There can be no possible question that it is to the interest of the city that both the Spartans and these Thebans should be weak.by: DemosthenesShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3539
The duty of those who claim to advise you here was to discuss the situation impartially, and to inquire, in an uncontentious spirit, what course is best in your interests.by: DemosthenesShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3538
My own belief is that our cause, the cause of justice, and its supporters, will prove stronger in every emergency than the traitor and the foreigner.by: DemosthenesShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3537
You have a thousand cavalry, and infantry as many as any one can desire, and three hundred ships.by: DemosthenesShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3536
Why, when we have our acknowledged foes, do we seek to procure others?by: DemosthenesShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3535
But a conflict of forces requires nothing so much as brave men; and of these, I believe, the larger number is with us, and with those who share our danger.by: DemosthenesShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3464
The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.by: Joseph ConradShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3463
It was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind.by: Joseph ConradShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3462
Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.by: Joseph ConradShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3446
The Cabinet is an absolutely secret committee, which can dissolve the assembly which appointed it.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3445
The Cabinet, in a word, is a board of control chosen by the legislature, out of persons whom it trusts and knows, to rule the nation.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3444
The efficient secret of the English constitution is the nearly complete fusion of the executive and legislative powers.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3443
The efficient parts only employ that power.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3442
The dignified parts of Government are those which bring it force - which attract its motive power.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3426
The law, then, is solely the organization of individual rights that existed before law.by: Frédéric BastiatShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3425
It is not true that the mission of the law is to regulate our consciences, our ideas, our will, our education, our sentiments, our works, our exchanges, our gifts, our enjoyments.by: Frédéric BastiatShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3424
Nothing, therefore, can be more evident than this: The law is the organization of the natural right of lawful defense; it is the substitution of collective for individual forces, for the purpose of acting in the sphere in which they have a right to act, of doing what they have a right to do, to secure persons, liberties, and properties, and to maintain each in its right, so as to cause justice to reign over all.by: Frédéric BastiatShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3423
It has converted plunder into a right, that it may protect it, and lawful defense into a crime, that it may punish it.by: Frédéric BastiatShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3422
It has acted in direct opposition to its proper end; it has destroyed its own object.by: Frédéric BastiatShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3421
The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes - naked greed and misconceived philanthropy.by: Frédéric BastiatShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3420
It is not because men have made laws, that personality, liberty, and property exist. On the contrary, it is because personality, liberty, and property exist beforehand, that men make laws.by: Frédéric BastiatShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3419
The law is the organization of the natural right of lawful defense; it is the substitution of collective for individual forces, for the purpose of acting in the sphere in which they have a right to act, of doing what they have a right to do, to secure persons, liberties, and properties, and to maintain each in its right, so as to cause justice to reign over all.by: Frédéric BastiatShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3418
Law is common force organized to prevent injustice.by: Frédéric BastiatShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3384
There is no conceivable way of making people do things they do not wish to do.Showing Quotes on Politics and Government
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Quote 3348
Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.by: Publilius SyrusShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3303
Whatsoever doth happen in the world, doth happen justly.by: Marcus AureliusShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3298
Liberty is the breath of progress.Showing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3268
There is no escape through law of man or God from the inevitable.Showing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3232
That your Sex are Naturally Tyrannical is a Truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute.Showing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3231
If perticuliar care and attention is not paid to the Laidies we are determined to foment a Rebelion.Showing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3230
Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.Showing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3225
A great empire and little minds go ill together.by: Edmund BurkeShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3224
The use of force alone is but temporary.by: Edmund BurkeShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3223
It is not what a lawyer tells me I MAY do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I OUGHT to do.by: Edmund BurkeShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3222
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.by: Edmund BurkeShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3221
Peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from force of character.Showing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3199
Liberty is power.Showing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 3191
All Gaul is divided into three parts.Showing Quotes on Politics and Government
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Quote 2945
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedomby: John LockeShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
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The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move themShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
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Quote 2788
Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to workby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
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Quote 2787
How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they readby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
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Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire countryby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
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Quote 2765
Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slaveby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
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It is much safer to obey, than to governby: Thomas a KempisShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 2571
Half a truth is better than no politicsShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
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Quote 2566
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loafShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
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Quote 2479
One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few handsShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 2473
The less of government the better, if society were kept in peace and prosperity.Showing Quotes on Politics and Government
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Quote 2470
No calculations of interest, no schemes of policy can do the work of love, of the spirit of human brotherhood. There can be no peace without but through peace within.Showing Quotes on Politics and Government
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Quote 2450
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselvesShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
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Quote 2404
Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charityby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
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Quote 2349
The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polishedShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 2312
The reality is, all over the country the number of people in the homeless condition continues to grow. It will grow significantly as far as the eye can see. It's near crisis right now. It will certainly get thereby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 2161
The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.Showing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 2159
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficentShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
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Quote 2158
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectableShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
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Quote 2157
To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retributionShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
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Quote 2156
The logic of words should yield to the logic of realitiesShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
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Quote 2153
The most important political office is that of the private citizenShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
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Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchyShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
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Quote 2148
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have bothShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
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Quote 2146
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.Showing Quotes on Politics and Government
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Quote 2145
Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerenceShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
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Quote 2144
Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgementShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
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Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of libertyShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decayShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform mannerby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
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Quote 1792
No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authorityby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 1774
There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their countryby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
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Quote 1752
The post of honour is a private stationby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
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Quote 1719
The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathiesShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
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Quote 1708
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.Showing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 1706
Politics are a very unsatisfactory gameShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
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Practical politics consists in ignoring factsShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
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Quote 1698
If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned womenShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with themShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
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Quote 1676
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.Showing Quotes on Politics and Government
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Quote 1671
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political partyby: Herbert HooverShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 1670
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.Showing Quotes on Politics and Government
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Quote 1609
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeatedby: Will RogersShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 1607
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.by: Thomas JeffersonShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
Quote 1606
The world is governed by opinionShowing Quotes on Politics and Government
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