Constitution Quote by James Wilson

“a boundless contempt for everything outside their art, for society, and above all, for politics. (64)”

— Émile Zola

“Turns out we need to know one more thing on earth: politics--because of its capacity, when benign, to allow all around it to flourish,…

— Charles Krauthammer

“Similarly, those who have been weaned off the self-aggrandizing attractions of political power are those who can then best be entrusted with it.”

— R.W.L. Moberly

“Matters of the world are dealt with more vigor and effectiveness when one views them as the right of nature instead of the superficiality…

— VD

“What interests me, personally, is work which in some way, speaks the truth to power…I don’t think we speak the truth to power for…

— Irvine Welsh

“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

“Indeed, the modern arguments about the necessities and virtues of government control over the individual are but malign echoes of utopian prescriptions through the…

— Mark R. Levin

“It is something anyone in power must fear, being surrounded by the flatterers and fools who say only what they think the powerful want…

— Jack Campbell

“If the United States sinks into political paralysis, its epitaph could well be, “government of the people, by the people, for the people.”

— John Micklethwait

“Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices that are visited upon…

— Frederick Douglass

“Upon closer observation, it becomes apparent that every strong upsurge of power in the public sphere, be it of a political or a religious…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“there seems an atmosphere everywhere these days in America, a malevolent vibration in the air, every citizen so quick to righteous rage, some tribal…

— Nickolas Butler