Deception and privileged secrets are common facets of politics.

The real enemy” is the totality of physical and mental constraints by which capital, or class society, or statism, or the society of the spectacle expropriates everyday life, the time of our lives. The real...

Politics is clueless; I can claim -“I am a politician” only because I am not.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

O silêncio dos omissos é combustível para a vilania dos canalhas

Is it better to be loved or feared?

The education of youth belongs to the priests, yet they do not take so much care of instructing them in letters, as in forming their minds and manners aright; they use all possible methods to...

If you are a leader or someone who works for the interest of a community, first make sure that you understand the interest of the people who make up that community. In this way, you...

Democracy is a poor system; the only thing that can be said for it is that it’s eight times as good as any other method.

Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade…

religion, the most powerful of the elements which have entered into the formation of moral feeling, having almost always been governed either by the ambition of a hierarchy, seeking control over every department of human...

You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to...

Only a person who perceives that all human beings are important can become a great leader.

..it happens in all human affairs that we never seek to escape one mischief without falling into another. Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage, and in accepting a less evil...

…if pride, that plague of human nature, that source of so much misery, did not hinder it; for this vice does not measure happiness so much by its own conveniences, as by the misery of...

I would rather write a book without a title if my true friend chooses to live in a million dollar home in London and acts foreign.

If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn’t have declared their independence from it.

Public strengthens politics but politics weakens public.

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant, it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

Every politician brings in a wide range of context, promises and characters to bring his mission of you to listen to his words and vote for him and later he won’t listen to you at...

Injuries, therefore, should be inflicted all at once, that their ill savour being less lasting may the less offend; whereas, benefits should be conferred little by little, that so they may be more fully relished.

The problem with all politicians is that they are human.

The supreme principle of socialism is that man takes precedence over things, life over property, and hence, work over capital; that power follows creation, and not possession; that man must not be governed by circumstances,...

I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard.

When an entire segment of the world is burned and reduced to a lawless battleground for thugs and mercenaries, a land where government does not exist, where the slate of history is being wiped out...

While some people are enraged over opposing facts as an attack on their belief system and integrity, I take them as an ADDITION to mine!12/13/14

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting.

Now I would solicit the particular attention of those numerous people who imagine that money is everything in this world, and that rank and ability are inseparable from wealth: let them observe that Cincinnatus, the...

Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don’t give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.

Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

Geography should be the ultimate deciding factor for every political dilemma for proximity to an ailing land is bound to result in one’s infection.

What I have said, and still believe with ever-increasing conviction, is that human society is always,whether it will or no, aristocratic by its very essence, to the extremethat it is a society in the measure...

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

I had this terrible nightmare; I dreamt I was a politician and they were dragging me off to parliament

Believing, as they now did, that the heavenly powers took part in human affairs, they became so much absorbed in the cultivation of religion and so deeply imbued with the sense of their religious duties,...

The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don’t have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe...

Prolific irony – For 8 years, the finger on the button that could end the world belonged to a president who couldn’t pronounce the word “nuclear.

When a political opponent resorts to the racist card, it’s a sure sign of moral bankruptcy: there’s no decent argument left in the armoury.

Some people awake each morning dreading the day looking for the negatives in their lives and in others, while some awaken fresh appreciating the opportunity to contribute to life, making the world a better place...

I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it’s laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right...

In essence I find that the foundation of modern conservatism is driven by a clinging to God in fear of the world, whereas the foundation of modern liberalism is a clinging to the world in...

A mother was thinking of how to keep her naughty child in line she tried using the boogey man it didn’t work … she thought and thought then said “the Politician is going to get...

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism....

Your right of religious freedom ends where my right of religious abstinence begins…

Y yo pregunto a los economistas políticos, a los moralistas, si han calculado el número de individuos que es necesario condenar a la miseria, al trabajo desproporcionado, a la infancia desamparada, a la ignorancia crapulosa,...

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

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...