Quotes About Politics

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.

Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

The EU leaves us no freedom to determine our own immigration and asylum laws. That's why leaving the EU is necessary.

Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left.

In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.

Freedom is never more in peril than when politicians feel the pressure to 'do something.'

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

There is no freedom of speech if you're a conservative.

I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.

The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.

Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.

I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them.

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary of economic freedom.

If socialism gave more prosperity than capitalism does, I would still prefer capitalism - as it gives more freedom. Luckily, though, I do not have to face this dillema.

Intervene globally, lose freedom locally.

I'm beginning to think theres more freedom in North korea sometimes than there is in the United States.

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.

Wherever liberty as we understand it has been destroyed, this has almost always been done in the name of some new freedom promised to the people