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Autobiography and memoir

A man who entertains in his mind any political doctrine, except as a means of improving the condition of his fellows, I regard as a political intriguer, a charlatan, and a conjuror.

Anthony Trollope

1883

★ 0.9

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

Franklin P. Adams

1944

★ 0.9

Political literature

Surely of all 'rights of man,' this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest.

1840

★ 1.0

Politics grease the wheels of business.

1958

★ 1.0

Interview · TV program

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

Milton Friedman

1975

★ 1.0

In reality there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.

David Foster Wallace

2000

★ 1.0

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Dissenting opinion · Legal writing

Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's Presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the Nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law.

John Paul Stevens

Bush v. Gore · 2000

★ 1.0

Essay · Magazine

Where is the acknowledgment that this was not a "cowardly" attack on "civilization" or "liberty" or "humanity" or "the free world" but an attack on the world's self-proclaimed superpower, undertaken as a consequence of specific American alliances and actions?

2001

★ 1.0

Speech · Commencement address

It's worth remembering this: freedom of expression sustains all the other freedoms we enjoy.

2015

★ 1.0

Speech · Political speech

I will govern according to the common weal, but not according to the common will.

1621

★ 1.1

Treatise · Legal writing

In all tyrannical governments, the supreme magistracy, or the right both of making and of enforcing the laws, is vested in one and the same man, or one and the same body of men; and wherever these two powers are united together, there can be no public liberty.

William Blackstone

Commentaries on the Laws of England · 1769

★ 1.1

Politics in the middle of things that concern the imagination are like a pistol-shot in the middle of a concert.

The Red and the Black · 1830

★ 1.1

Autobiography and memoir

We are here not because we are law-breakers. We are here in our efforts to become law-makers.

Emmeline Pankhurst

1914

★ 1.1

Economic literature

Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.

John Maynard Keynes

The Economic Consequences of the Peace · 1919

★ 1.1

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

1964

★ 1.1

Nobel Prize Lecture · Speech

We are ready for the dialogue.

1983

★ 1.1

Speech · Political speech

And I hope we have once again reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.

1989 Farewell Address · 1989

★ 1.1

Film · Animation (film) · Animation

Jessie's right! Authority should derive from the consent of the governed, not from threat of force!

Toy Story 3 · 2010

★ 1.1

We have to begin to have a conversation that incorporates a vision of love with a vision of outrage.

2016

★ 1.1

Essay · Political literature

Among the most formidable of the obstacles which the new Constitution will have to encounter may readily be distinguished the obvious interest of a certain class of men in every State to resist all changes which may hazard a diminution of the power, emolument, and consequence of the offices they hold under the State establishments.

Alexander Hamilton

Federalist 1 · 1787

★ 1.2

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