Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying read more

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little read more

England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of read more

Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

Here the two great interests Imperium et Libertas, res olim
insociabiles (saith Tacitus), began to incounter each other.

Here the two great interests Imperium et Libertas, res olim
insociabiles (saith Tacitus), began to incounter each other.

I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober,
second thought of the people shall be law.

I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober,
second thought of the people shall be law.

Away with the cant of "Measures not men!"--the idle supposition
that it is the harness and not the horses read more

Away with the cant of "Measures not men!"--the idle supposition
that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot
along. No Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the
distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures
comparatively nothing.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.