America Quote by Pope Francis

Most men appear to think that the art of despotic government is statesmanship, and what men affirm to be unjust and inexpedient in their…

— Aristotle

Any man who has ever tried to use political power for the common good has felt an awful sense of powerlessness.

— Robert Casey

“The principle of equality, which makes men independent of each other, gives them a habit and a taste for following, in their private actions,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.

— Herbert Spencer

The overriding problem with our country, and our world in general, is that we are, in large part, managed by incompetents. Most of these…

— Robert James Waller

There are, perhaps, few men who can for any length of time enjoy office and power without being more or less under the influence…

— Andrew Jackson

There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“The masses, on admitting their own incapacity to govern themselves, have elected me as their head By doing so, they have clearly proclaimed their…

— Mikhail Bakunin

Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them…

— Anthony Trollope

Every new development for the last three centuries has brought men closer to a state of affairs in which absolutely nothing would be recognized…

— Simone Weil

Dependency is the highest political good - at least for politicians. Since the 1930s, politicians have striven to leave no vote unbought.

— James Bovard