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- Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
- Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
- Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
- Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
- What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would…
- Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
- I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
- Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately…
- Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition…
- PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pull.
- You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.
- I keep a conscience uncorrupted by religion, a judgment undimmed by politics and patriotism, a heart untainted by friendships and sentiments unsoured by animosities.
- REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.
- TRUST, n. In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in the care of…
- MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.
- Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.
- Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
- TENACITY, n. A certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains its highest development in the…
- RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.
- PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.
- PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as…
- NOMINATE, v. To designate for the heaviest political assessment. To put forward a suitable person to incur the mudgobbling and deadcatting of the opposition.
- DELEGATION, n. In American politics, an article of merchandise that comes in sets.
- ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.
- ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof…
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- 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