politics
“The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.”
“We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.”
“Fear prophets, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them.”
“From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.”
“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.”
“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
“Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.”
“Who is the greater criminal: he who robs a bank or he who founds one?”
“Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.”
“Politics, n. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.”
“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.”
“The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”
“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.”
“Power corresponds to the human ability not just to act but to act in concert.”
“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”
“A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy.”
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.”
“Facts are stubborn things.”