“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“Politics is the art of the possible.”
H. L. Mencken
6 quotes“A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”
Ronald Reagan
6 quotes“The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.”
Charles de Gaulle
6 quotes“I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.”
George Orwell
4 quotes“In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of polities'. All issues are political issues.”
Margaret Thatcher
4 quotes“What Britain needs is an iron lady.”
Henry Adams
4 quotes“Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”
FDR
3 quotes“Presidents are selected, not elected.”
Laurence Peter
2 quotes“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean...”
John Kenneth Galbraith
2 quotes“Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.”
Ken Follett
2 quotes“Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.”
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...”