Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy.
Politics Quotes
Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle.
Liberty is not a means to a political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Man is by nature a political animal.
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.
He who would live without the polis must be either a beast or a god.
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Burke is so great because, almost alone in England, he brings thought to bear upon politics, he saturates politics with thought.
