“A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.”
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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.”
Ronald Reagan
6 quotes“Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.”
H. L. Mencken
6 quotes“A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”
Tocqueville
5 quotes“The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.”
Henry Adams
4 quotes“Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.”
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.”
FDR
3 quotes“Presidents are selected, not elected.”
Theodore Roosevelt
2 quotes“The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.”
Ken Follett
2 quotes“Americans talked about voters the same way Russians talked about Stalin. They had to be obeyed.”
Laurence Peter
2 quotes“America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.”