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.

Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.

Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie read more

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.

There are no true friends in politics.

There are no true friends in politics.

One of the greatest Romans, when asked where were his politics,
replied, "Imperium et libertas." That would not make read more

One of the greatest Romans, when asked where were his politics,
replied, "Imperium et libertas." That would not make a bad
programme for a British Ministry.

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.

It is necessary that I should qualify the doctrine of its being
not men, but measures, that I am read more

It is necessary that I should qualify the doctrine of its being
not men, but measures, that I am determined to support. In a
monarchy it is the duty of parliament to look at the men as well
as at the measures.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and
in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle read more

You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and
in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of
discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.