Quotes on Politics

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.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

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

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.