25 result(s) for Corruption, Politics, And Power Quotes.
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."
"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."
"The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government."
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."
"The politician attempts to remedy the evil by increasing it."
"In politics, stupidity is not a handicap."
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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive."
"A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation."
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
"The measure of a man is what he does with power."
"Politics have no relation to morals."
"Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote."
"The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst."
"Supposing you were an idiot, and supposing you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself."
"For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth."
"Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of."
"The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations."
"It is not enough to be elected. One must be re-electable."
"Every election is determined by the people who show up."
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
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"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion."
"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
"Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right."
