Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of read more

Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying read more

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend

Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have read more

Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have proven only one thing and that is you can’t ruin this country even with politics.

It is necessary that I should qualify the doctrine of its being
not men, but measures, that I am read more

It is necessary that I should qualify the doctrine of its being
not men, but measures, that I am determined to support. In a
monarchy it is the duty of parliament to look at the men as well
as at the measures.

Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Here the two great interests Imperium et Libertas, res olim
insociabiles (saith Tacitus), began to incounter each other.

Here the two great interests Imperium et Libertas, res olim
insociabiles (saith Tacitus), began to incounter each other.

Man is by nature a political animal.

Man is by nature a political animal.

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.