Political Philosophy Quotes

"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness." "The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness." "Once you don't vote your ideology, votes don't really count" "Govern a nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it." "The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution." "The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries." "Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power." "Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse" "The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property" "Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it" "Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life." "To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy" "The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined" "Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff" "Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one"