Politics-of-the-united-states Quote by Benjamin Kane Ethridge

“Excess has impaired perspective in America.”

— Jen Hatmakermaker

"Our government will soon become what it is already a long way toward becoming, an elective dictatorship.

— J. William Fulbright

“...the wreckage of representative government is strewn with broken promises.”

— Herbert Hoover

“It makes a lot of sense, which makes me suspect it is a call for revolution wrapped in the clothing of rationality.”

— Veronica Roth

“Whenever, in a democracy, we see our rulers obsessed with “the technical aspects” of the electoral process, whenever we see them tinkering with the…

— Tim Parks

“Opinions of the masses kill the 'extra' in an 'extraordinary' idea.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Some old and unrealized ideas will undoubtedly be actualized when their time comes.”

— Eraldo Banovac

“We have been gradually finding out that there is more democracy in letting a committee or representative ten to details than in making everybody's…

— Edward Pearson Pressey

“Consequently even if the paradigm is flawed, it would be extremely difficult to resist.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Once the tyranny of literalness is rejected, all relevant considerations for giving a rational content to the words become operative.”

— Justice Frankfurter

“Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.”

— Suetonius

“We are so used to considering everything through the prism of our current feelings and our most recent acquisitions that it is a radical…

— Eugene H. Peterson