politics Quotes

I don't respond well to the Olympic noise, which is the noise of nationalistic triumphalism.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.