politics

To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

Good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow.

"War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He ought," says this great political doctor, "to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans. "A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature.

To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.

You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.

When you are in any contest,you should work as if there were-to the very last minute-a chance to lose it. This is battle,This is politics,This is anything.

Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.

Envy is the cause of political division.