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Political philosophy Quotes

"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

"The British Constitution is mainly British common sense."

"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."

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