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Political Quotes by Robert A. Heinlein
- ...I am opposed to all attempts to license or restrict the arming of individuals... I consider such laws a violation of civil liberty, subversive of…
- It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do…
- Peace is an extension of war by political means. Plenty of elbow-room is pleasanter -- and much safer.
- Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically…
- It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do…
- There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be…
- There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
- Secrecy begets tyranny.
- Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.
- Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good” government, it simply insures that it will work.…
- When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities…
More Political Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a… — Hannah Arendt
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle