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Politics Quotes by Edmund Burke
- Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
- When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
- Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
- A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
- Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
- Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being…
- Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial…
- The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
- The whole compass of the language is tried to find sinonimies [synonyms] and circumlocutions for massacres and murder. Things never called by their common names.…
- To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is…
- It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but they ought to take great care that they…
- Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian…
- The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.
- There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most…
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- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
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- 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