The house of representatives ... can make no law, which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In my view, after fifty years of service in the United National system, I perceive the utmost urgency and absolute necessity for… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
That great political idea, sanctifying freedom and consecrating it to God, teaching men to treasure the liberties of others as their own… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
[T]he visibility of styles is itself a product of historical consciousness. ... The very notion of "style" needs to be approached historically.… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I am always suspicious of the formulation that "politics" has prevented a great idea from being enacted by government. Politics IS government,… — Nicholas Lemann Copy Share Image
If you're a status quo writer, you're considered to not be political but that's as political as if you're a progressive writer.… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The part of the strangeness of coming back from the war is the way we talk about it. We try to have… — Phil Klay Copy Share Image
Obama's clean power plan, methane regulations, and increased fuel economy standards are about as good as our political system can do at… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions, and to examine the… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
The war for our Union, with all the constitutional issues which it settled, and all the military lessons which it gathered in,… — William James Copy Share Image
I live to the rhythm of my country and I cannot remain on the sidelines. I want to be here. I want… — Elena Poniatowska Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory,… — Fred Rodell Copy Share Image
In 1973, I was shown a graphic of how dependent the United States was on nonrenewable resources like oil and coal and… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
On a micro level, if we're not terribly lucky, this sort of thing can happen to us quite frequently - the political… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
At the start of the eighties, Tony and I [Tony Wakefield was one of the original members of DIJ] were involved in… — Douglas Pearce Copy Share Image
They're rights that should be endemic to any democracy. The right to a free quality education, from elementary school right through higher… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The worst thing you can do is to turn over your life to a political party that simply is going to use… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I do suppose what any political satire, what any political joke can count as a gaffe or a possible career-ending move. It… — Timothy Simons Copy Share Image
All economic and political institutions are contrivances that should serve the interests of the people. When they fail to do so, they… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
It's best to think of these as two things - they're related, but there's different dynamics going on with each of them.… — Rebecca Hamilton Copy Share Image
Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
I read and learned and fretted more about Canada after I left than I ever did while I was home. I absorbed… — Will Ferguson Copy Share Image
You can give your Social Security check to any organization, public or private, or to individuals. You can donate it to your… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
We seem to know that international wars tend not to stop with their formal "peace treaties." We seem not to have thought… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A disordered currency is one of the greatest political evils. It undermines the virtues necessary for the support of the social system,… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country to decide, by their… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
What is music in America? It's this stand-in for political action in a lot of senses. We have no democracy and we… — Ian Svenonius Copy Share Image
The sciences that purport to treat of human things -- the new scientific storyings of the social, the political, the racial or… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Even as the government dominates the headlines, private entrepreneurs are busy every day working to improve products and services that improve our… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
If he loves, he wants to make a relationship out of it immediately! He wants to get married. He wants to create… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
But while capitalism may be a convenient scapegoat, it did not cause any of these problems. Indeed, whatever one wishes to call… — Yaron Brook Copy Share Image
The more people that understand and are made able to spot liberalism, and then the more people are able to associate liberalism… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
On politics I strive as much as possible to let my passions be for God and for the Church and for others… — Scot McKnight Copy Share Image
We now possess four principles of morality: 1) a philosophical: do good for its own sake, out of respect for the law;… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
In the middle-class United States, a veneer of "alternative lifestyles" disguises the reality that, here as everywhere, women's apparent "choices" whether or… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image