Affair Quote by John Selden

“We need to teach our nation to detest any form of plots, insinuations, evil intrigues and violence.”

— Sunday Adelaja

It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that…

— Aristotle

“The schemers in this world eventually plot nothing but their own downfall.”

— Kaneda Chaplin

Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and…

— Henry A. Wallace

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.

— Anonymous

Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.

— William Shenstone

“Our contemporaries are constantly wracked by two warring passions: they feel the need to be led and the desire to remain free. Unable to…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Now, my dear Mr. Douglas, don't go off on those tiresome foreign affairs. What can it signify which conquers which, or who dethrones who,…

— Emily Eden

Govern wisely, and as little as possible

— Sam Houston

Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.

— Alexander Pope

The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do.

— Josh Billings

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

— Edmund Burke