Quotes on Politics

So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean.

Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself.

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris

No medieval monarch in the whole of British history ever had such power as every modern British Prime Minister has in his or her hands. Nor does any American President have power approaching this

Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution

The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it

I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner

I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.

Socialism can only be put into practice only by methods which most socialists disapprove.

I oppose registration for the draft... because I believe the security of freedom can best be achieved by security through freedom.

I am interested in politics so that one day I will not have to be interested in politics.

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

Liberty is the breath of progress.

I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintainence of a free society is a very difficult and complicated thing and it requires a self-denying ordinance of the most extreme kind. It requires a willingness to put up with temporary evils on the basis of the subtle and sophisticated understanding that if you step in to do something about them you not only may make them worse, you will spread your tenticles and get bad results elsewhere.

There is a very real danger that we will kill everything on this planet now that we have the technological power to do so.

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

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

Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.