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Politics Quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
- Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at…
- I am deeply convinced that any permanent, regular administrative system whose aim is to provide for the needs of the poor will breed more miseries…
- In politics a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.
- The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
- Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in…
- There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
- In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
- Trade is the natural enemy of all violent passions because it loves moderation, delights in compromise an is most careful to avoid anger.
More Politics Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — 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
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle