Politics and Power

Salus populi suprema est lex.

The ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

Democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

National compulsory insurance for all classes for all purposes from the cradle to the grave.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

[The Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.

I have waited 50 years to see the boneless wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

A Parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the twenty-seven millions mostly fools.

France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.

The seagreen Incorruptible.

Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.

Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness.

I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and I intend to spend it.

States like these … constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of this world.

This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while.

We will make no distinction between terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.

From this it is clear how much the pen is worse than the sword.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

The people are the masters.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.