Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but…

American politics is a struggle, not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about…

— Henry Adams

Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force,…

— Henry Adams

Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners.

— Winston Churchill

“That was the trouble with California in the 1840's. The life was too easy, there was no necessity for struggle, and men must struggle…

— Louis L'Amour

“The essence of our struggle is that men shall be free.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

One of the things that really has gone wrong in modern politics, one of the things that made Trump possible was that many people…

— David Frum

There is a schizophrenic nature in modern politics. A leader is expected to have a religious faith but he is not supposed to let…

— Stephen Mansfield

International politics, like all politics, is a struggle for power.

— Anonymous

Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.

— William Hurrell Mallock

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

— C. Wright Mills

My difficulty with the whole right-left construct is that I don't think it describes modern politics or the modern choices that people face in…

— Leo Varadkar

In modern politics, even the leader of the free world needs help from the sultan of Facebookistan.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

— Alasdair MacIntyre

Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition…

— Alasdair MacIntyre

The man is the Piltdown Man of modern politics.

— Charlie Pierce