politics Quotes

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.