Quotes on Political

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest. That's bad news for everyone else - and for our democracy itself.

There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone. This would nevertheless require a courageous change of attitude on the part of political leaders.

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.