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- Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
- Henry Adams (1838 - 1918), The Education of Henry Adams, 1906
- Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), Address recorded for the Republican Lincoln Day dinners, January 28, 1964
- The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), Women As Outlaws
- The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 - 1971)
- The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Remarks to Harvard and Yale undergraduates invited to Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, Long Island, June 1901
- There is hardly a political question in the United States which doesn't sooner or later turn into a judicial one.
- Alexis De Tocqueville (1805 - 1859), Democracy in America, 1835
- There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The New York Times Magazine, April 25, 1971
- The essence of government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
- James Madison (1751 - 1836), Speech in the Virginia constitutional convention, Richmond, Virginia, December 2, 1829
- There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The New York Times Magazine, April 25, 1971, p. 24
- The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
- James Madison (1751 - 1836), Speech in the Virginia constitutional convention, Richmond, Virginia, December 2, 1829
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