Bitterness Quote by Charles Emmerson

“A regime which is nominally liberal can be oppressive in reality. A regime which acknowledges its violence might have in it more genuine humanity.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“that the whole nation, tired of war, actually only longed for order, quiet, and a little security and bourgeois life. And, secretly it hated…

— Stefan Zweig

“To the less privileged it was this arbitrariness that made the regime's power feel so oppressive. There were no clear principles or regulations which…

— Orlando Figes

No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake.

— Clinton Rossiter

There is no stability without solidarity and no solidarity without stability.

— Jose Manuel Barroso

No republic ever yet stood on a stable foundation without satisfying the common people.

— Mercy Otis Warren

“The Rebellion was gone, and a new government grew swiftly—if clumsily—in its place.”

— Chuck Wendig

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

— Benjamin Disraeli

A nation without means of reform is without means of survival.

— Edmund Burke

“It is almost safe to say that no government is likely to be overthrown until it loses the ability to make adequate use of…

— Brinton Crane

“Nevertheless, no other speech proved “so effective, none so full of character and none which found so responsive an audience. It carried everything before…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people,…

— Leo Tolstoy