Politics Quotes

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

Since the 1930s the technique of buying votes with the voters’ own money has been expanded to an extent undreamed of by earlier politicians.

Whatever else their faults may be, they were not radical Islamist states – Iraq was not, Syria is not, Libya was not. The most radical fundamentalist Islamist state is, of course, your America’s Saudi Arabia.

We all have an unscientific weakness for being always in the right, and this weakness seems to be particularly common among professional and amateur politicians.

Congress must move forward vigorously and help the American people.

As government expands, liberty contracts.

It is, therefore, a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.

I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.

Justice is the infrastructure of proprietorship.