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2007 February 09
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"The less people know about
how sausages and laws are made,
the better they'll sleep at night." |
"In the fight between you and the world, back the world." |
"There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress." |
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2007 February 08
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"On account of being a democracy and run by the people,
we are the only nation in the world that has to keep
a government four years, no matter what it does." |
"Politicians should read science fiction,
not westerns and detective stories." |
"An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought." |
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2007 February 07
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"It is necessary for me to establish a winner image.
Therefore, I have to beat somebody." |
"Politics is the art of the possible." |
"Ideological talk and phrase mongering about
political liberties should be disposed with;
all that is just mere chatter and phrase mongering.
We should get away from those phrases." |
"The opposition is indispensable. A good statesmen,
like any other sensible human being,
always learns more from his opponents
than from his fervent supporters." |
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2007 February 06
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"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." |
"It is possible to read the history of this country
as one long struggle to extend the liberties established
in our Constitution to everyone in America." |
"Politicians are the same all over.
They promise to build a bridge
even where there is no river." |
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." |
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2007 February 05
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"People who live in states have as a rule never experienced
the state of nature and vice-versa, and have no practical
possibility of moving from the one to the other ... On what
grounds, then, do people form hypotheses about the relative
merits of state and state of nature? ... My contention here
is that preferences for political arrangements of society are
to a large extent produced by these very arrangements, so that
political institutions are either addictive like some drugs,
or allergy-inducing like some others, or both, for they may
be one thing for some people and the other for others." |
"I joined the party because I was a revolutionary, not because of any ideological nonsense." |
"Anonymous pamphlets, leaflets, brochures and even books have played an important role in the progress of mankind. Persecuted groups and sects from time to time throughout history have been able to criticize the oppressive practices and laws either anonymously or not at all... It is plain that anonymity has sometimes been assumed for the most constructive purposes." |
"We may feel genuinely concerned about world conditions, though such a concern should drive us into action and not into a depression." |
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