politics
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
“A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new.”
“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
“There is nothing more difficult to carry out than to initiate a new order of things.”
“Everyone sees what you appear to be; few really know what you are.”
“A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.”
“It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.”
“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
“Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.”
“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
“Man is by nature a political animal; he who is unfit to live in society is either a beast or a god.”
“Dynasties have a natural life span.”
“Government prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself.”
“The majority is never right.”
“Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.”
“The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
“Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.”
“Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.”