Authority Quote by Edward Gibbon

The wise legislator will only rarely initiate a new rule of behaviour; more usually he will confine himself to affirming in law what has…

— Gregory Bateson

Prosperity seldom chooses the side of the virtuous.

— Heloise

“My little friend Grildrig; you have made a most admirable panegyrick upon your country. You have clearly proved that ignorance, idleness, and vice, are…

— Jonathan Swift

It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property. The existence of persons and property preceded the existence…

— Frederic Bastiat

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort…

— John Stuart Mill

A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be…

— Edmund Burke

There seldom is enmity between seasoned old politicians, who know as much as men can of human weakness and human strength.

— Tom Wicker

“It is easy to conceive that, according to the power of the legislator, it destroys for its own profit, and in different degrees, amongst…

— Frédéric Bastiat

There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.

— Sharon Pollock

The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs. Often by foregoing a part he saves the whole,…

— Plutarch

If the benevolent ruler stays in power long enough, he eventually concludes that power and wisdom are the same thing. And as he possesses…

— Ben Moreell