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Political philosophy Quotes

"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth."

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."

"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."

"In our governments, the real power lies in the majority of the community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the government is the mere instrument of the major number of the constituents."

"A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person"

"By covenant only, that is to say, by mutual contract, he becomes subject to civil laws."

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists."

"Government is a human institution, created by human beings, mainly for the purpose of instituting and maintaining certain types of order among humans"

"The ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone"

"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. "

"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution."

"Once you don't vote your ideology, votes don't really count"

"Poverty in democracy is as much to be preferred to so-called prosperity under despots, as freedom to slavery."

"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself."

"The monarch and his ministers should work as one body."

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