politics Quotes

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Socialism, reduced to its simplest legal and practical expression, means the complete discarding of the institution of private property by transforming it into public property, and the division of the resultant public income equally and indiscriminately among the entire population.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.

If I own a large part of Scotland, I can turn the people off the land practically into the sea or across the sea. I can take women in child-bearing and throw them into the snow and leave them there. That has been done. I can do it for no better reason than I think it is better to shoot deer on the land than allow people to live on it.

In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.