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A disposition to preserve and an ability to improve taken together would be my standard of a statesman.

Edmund Burke
A disposition to preserve and an ability to improve taken together would be my standard of a statesman.

It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.

Thomas Jefferson
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.

The surest way to prevent seditions... is to take away the matter of them.

Francis Bacon The Essays
The surest way to prevent seditions... is to take away the matter of them.

... Physicians tell us of hectic fever, that in its beginning it is easy to cure, but hard to recognize; whereas, after a time, not having been detected and treated at the first, it becomes easy to...

Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince
... Physicians tell us of hectic fever, that in its beginning it is easy to cure, but hard to recognize; whereas, after a time, not having been detected and treated at the first, it becomes easy to recognize but impossible to cure. And so it is with State affairs.

Democracy is a poor system

Democracy is a poor system

Conservative should tend to resist the argument that our particular crisis is a more-than-normal one, that our particular moment is a more-than-Madisonian one. Conservatism is a healthy political...

William Krystol
Conservative should tend to resist the argument that our particular crisis is a more-than-normal one, that our particular moment is a more-than-Madisonian one. Conservatism is a healthy political persuasion because it is inclined to shun alarmism.

One of the {many} problems with government is not that power corrupts or even that it is magnetic to corruptible people; rather, it is that we have been conditioned to tolerate corruption in power,...

Michelle Templet
One of the {many} problems with government is not that power corrupts or even that it is magnetic to corruptible people; rather, it is that we have been conditioned to tolerate corruption in power, and so we don't even try to hold our politicians accountable.

A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks!

Mehmet Murat ildan
A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks!

I always said a good despotism was the best form of government

I always said a good despotism was the best form of government

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst...

Winston S. Churchill Churchill...
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

A senator once confided to me that the greatest need in Washington was the elimination of the cocktail party. He said: It consumes so much of our time that we don't have time for matters of state.

Billy Graham Billy Graham in...
A senator once confided to me that the greatest need in Washington was the elimination of the cocktail party. He said: It consumes so much of our time that we don't have time for matters of state.

Governments will be provided with the choice of either accommodating themselves to coordinating proliferating human variety or seeking to reduce that variety by repressive measures.

Peter J. Carroll Liber Null and...
Governments will be provided with the choice of either accommodating themselves to coordinating proliferating human variety or seeking to reduce that variety by repressive measures.

After 1688 the state began to rely more on talent and less on political appointees, and developed a powerful infrastructure to run the country.

Daron Acemoğlu Why Nations...
After 1688 the state began to rely more on talent and less on political appointees, and developed a powerful infrastructure to run the country.

Campaign contributions don't buy votes. What they buy is access.

Al Franken Al Franken,...
Campaign contributions don't buy votes. What they buy is access.

The utopian, immanent, and continually frustrated goal of the modern state is to reduce the chaotic, disorderly, constantly changing social reality beneath it to something more closely resembling the...

James C. Scott Seeing Like a...
The utopian, immanent, and continually frustrated goal of the modern state is to reduce the chaotic, disorderly, constantly changing social reality beneath it to something more closely resembling the administrative grid of its observations.

In the general course of things, the popular views and even prejudices will direct the action of the rulers.

Ron Chernow Alexander...
In the general course of things, the popular views and even prejudices will direct the action of the rulers.
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