Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master ….

The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other groups in the interest of their ow….

Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives..

BOREDOM with established truths is a great enemy of free men..

Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good..

Totalitarianism surpasses autocracy..

The idea of a rational bureaucracy, of skill, merit, and consistency, is essential to all modern states..

The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order..

One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to the real tasks of eco….

The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension..

Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to politic….

Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs..

Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupation of free men, and its existence is a test of freedom. The praise of free men is worth havin….

Free men stick their necks out..

The attempt to politicize everything is the destruction of politics. When everything is seen as relevant to politics, than politics has in fact becom….

Factory workers are not working for capitalism, they are working for a living wage..

The politician has no more use for pride than Falstaff had for honour..

What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics int….

Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done..

The unique character of political activity lies, quite literally, in its publicity..

Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character o….