Acquire Quote by James Madison

“The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be…

— Gene Sharp

The foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality, and the preeminence of free government…

— George Washington

“Any government that presumes to direct how its people relate to ultimate truths either believes it is the only guide to those truths, or…

— Timothy Shah

The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is, it follows, in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects…

— Gene Sharp

We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

— John Howard

The object of every free government is the public good, and all lesser interests yield to it. That of every tyrannical government, is the…

— Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger

In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.

— Pierre Trudeau

“Interest yourself in public affairs as a duty of citizenship, but do not surrender your faith to those who discredit and debase politics by…

— Grover Cleveland

“Political judgments are generally vain formalities, for the same passions which give rise to the accusation ordain the condemnation. Such is the atrocious logic…

— Alexandre Dumas

“In truth, the history of political thought is an end in itself, the highest peak of political education. The crowning achievement of political knowledge,…

— Robert Nandor Berki

“It was easy to speak theoretically and idealistically about politics when one is seeking power. The demands of exercising it once it is won,…

— Jon Meacham

It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also.

— Thomas Jefferson