“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”
More from Tocqueville on Politics
“The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.”
“There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.”
“In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.”
“A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.”
Others on Politics
Otto von Bismarck
9 quotes“Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.”
Charles de Gaulle
6 quotes“In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.”
H. L. Mencken
6 quotes“A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”
Ronald Reagan
6 quotes“Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.”
Margaret Thatcher
4 quotes“The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.”
George Orwell
4 quotes“Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.”
Henry Adams
4 quotes“Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.”
FDR
3 quotes“Presidents are selected, not elected.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
2 quotes“Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.”
Mark Twain
2 quotes“If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.”
John le Carré
2 quotes“Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to d...”
David Hume
2 quotes“The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.”