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If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have read more
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.
Away with the cant of "Measures not men!"--the idle supposition
that it is the harness and not the horses read more
Away with the cant of "Measures not men!"--the idle supposition
that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot
along. No Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the
distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures
comparatively nothing.
Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low
Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low
I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce"
voting at elections is the best read more
I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce"
voting at elections is the best method.
[Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio,
nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]
There are no true friends in politics.
There are no true friends in politics.
All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
This is an impressive crowd: the Have's and Have-more's. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base.
This is an impressive crowd: the Have's and Have-more's. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base.
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.