“Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.”

Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.

The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour.

If a government is to do great new things, it will need more support. If a government is to change the world, it will need mass support. This is one of the discoveries of modern government.

In an abstract but real sense, Marxism arose through the breakdown first of religion and then of ‘reason’ as single sources of authority.

Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.

Individualism and Economic Order and many other works, which is, to put it briefly, the whole of laisser-faire economic theory, then plainly man as such a programmed predator has very little interest in being fraternal, or very little chance.

Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence…politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.

To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.

BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men.

There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.

Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.

Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupation of free men, and its existence is a test of freedom. The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.

Politics are, as it were, the market place and the price mechanism of all social demands – though there is no guarantee that a just price will be struck; and there is nothing spontaneous about politics- it depends on deliberate and continuous activity.

Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.

Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy.

Free men stick their necks out.

In public affairs men are often better pleased that the truth, though known to everybody, should be wrapped up under a decent cover than if it were exposed in open daylight to the eyes of all the world.

I should have known the moment your lips met mine that we were having an affair with borrowed time.

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

We are confident that we will continue to play an active role in national affairs without disappointing everyone’s expectations.

I am not ashamed of anything – not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.

If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?