Chaos theory Quote by L.K. Samuels

All writers on the science of policy are agreed, and they agree with experience, that all governments must frequently infringe the rules of justice…

— Edmund Burke

“Legitimacy involves the capacity of a political system to engender and maintain the belief that existing political institutions are the most appropriate or proper…

— Seymour Martin Lipset

“Ideology follows the money." "Governments don't protect people, people protect governments." "To accept the legitimacy of the state is to embrace the necessity for…

— Lawrence Samuels

“Political liberty—that is, the ability of societies to rule themselves—does not depend only on the degree to which a society can mobilize opposition to…

— Francis Fukuyama

“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

“A political system that is all checks and balances is potentially no more successful than one with no checks, because governments periodically need strong…

— Francis Fukuyama

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

— Thomas Paine

To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in our Federal…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a majority, people…

— Walter Lippmann

Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whether those of one man, of a few,…

— James Mill

The fundamental question of political philosophy, one that precedes questions about how the state should be organized, is whether there should be any state…

— Robert Nozick

The state is an organization of mere mortals who, by one dubious method or another, have been allowed to don the mantle of political…

— Sheldon Richman