What, after all, is the public under present conditions? What are the reasons for its eclipse? What hinders it from finding and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Reagan Democrats increasingly extended their antipathy from nonwhites to government as a whole. “These white Democratic defectors express a profound distaste for… — Ian Haney López Copy Share Image
It is not certain that with this aid alone [possession of arms], they would not be able to shake off their yokes.… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“The special skill of the politician consists in knowing what passions can be most easily aroused, and how to prevent them, when… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
With respect to our State and federal governments, I do not think their relations correctly understood by foreigners. They generally suppose the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[Freedom] is the greatest of political goods. I do not say freedom is the greatest of all goods: the best things come… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Every coercive monopoly was created by government intervention into the economy: by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies, which closed the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“It doesn't have any effect on your life. What do you care?! People try to talk about it like it's a social… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems, it could well make the difference between a Labour and… — Lucy Powell Copy Share Image
“The Bible is right: A deluge of images does encourage idolatry. Look at the cults of personality in America today. Look at… — A.J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
“The people who believe themselves superior to you will reveal themselves in how they respond to criticism from you. An opinion of… — Crystal Evans Copy Share Image
“People are not hungry because there is no food in the world. There is plenty of it; there is a surplus in… — Ryszard Kapuściński Copy Share Image
“As shown in chapter 2, the Pentateuch largely rejects the monarchic principle as it was construed elsewhere, often with a religiously sanctioned… — Joshua A. Berman Copy Share Image
Ironically enough, why I got into politics is because I came to the conclusion that if you wanted to save the world,… — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
“It is not until one visits old, oppressed, suffering Europe, that he can appreciate his own government, "he observed, "that he realizes… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Whenever there is some trouble in any area of the economy, the simplest solution to many people is "Let the government fix… — Lawrence Fertig Copy Share Image
“It was possible to borrow British technology, and increasingly governments began to promote development. By the end of the nineteenth century, governments… — David Christian Copy Share Image
Political folk talk a lot these days about 'messaging' - a neologism designed to describe the way in which parties and politicians… — John Podhoretz Copy Share Image
Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Let's not forget, it was the government, Department of Finance and Central Bank that decided to unfairly land the taxpayers of this… — Sean Quinn Copy Share Image
As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice--there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community. To discover how… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
Presidents are given immense power in the American political system when it comes to personnel. FBI directors are given ten-year terms to… — Stephen Farnsworth Copy Share Image
“politics is brutal because it engages the most fundamental human impulses for affection, honor, power, and fame. Great principles and grand visions… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
The Social Citizen is the best, most thorough, and most methodologically sophisticated treatment of the role of social networks in political behavior… — James H. Fowler Copy Share Image
“Daniel was slow to take up the cheer. But when he did, he meant it. This was politics. It was ugly, it… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
America has made no reparation to the Vietnamese, nothing. We are the richest people in the world and they are among the… — Martha Gellhorn Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a victimless crime, and people should be allowed to do as they please with their own… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
Americans from all walks of life have voiced their deep frustration with Washington's seeming inability to get anything constructive done. For decades,… — Thom Tillis Copy Share Image
When you come to the spiritual needs, the emotional needs, the needs of our inner life, then politics and business and technology… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
It's important not to take yourself too seriously, ... and I think sometimes people take us a lot more seriously than we… — Daron Malakian Copy Share Image
“The strangeness of the Barrayaran government system with all its unwritten customs, pressed on Cordelia not so much as first glance but… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
[John] Adams never had an optimistic view of human nature, and his experience in the Congress and abroad only deepened his suspicion… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
Here we have the heart of the difference between Hayek and Keynes: one knew that markets work to give us the best… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are… — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
The First Amendment to the Constitution reflects that concept recognized in the Ten Commandments, that the duties we owe to God and… — Roy Moore Copy Share Image
“No happiness without order, no order without authority, no authority without unity.” The mildness of all government among them, civil or domestic,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
Every community is an association of some kind and every community is established with a view to some good; for everyone always… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“The very opposition between “conservative” and “progressive” politics can be conceived of in the terms of Darwinism: ultimately, conservatives defend the right… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For the most part, the evidence shows that individual Americans do not care a great deal about politics and are rather poorly… — Edward S. Greenberg Copy Share Image
We also call upon the king to hand over power to the political parties and for the political parties to shoulder their… — Joseph Adam Ereli Copy Share Image