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No authors draw upon themselves more displeasure than those who deal in political matters, which is justly incurred, considering that spirit of rancour and virulence with which works of this nature abound.: Joseph Addison

Men who possess a state of neutrality in times of public danger desert the interests of their fellow-subjects.: Joseph Addison

A British ministry ought to be satisfied if, allowing to every particular man that his private scheme is wisest, they can persuade him that, next to his own plan, that of the government is the most eligible.: Joseph Addison

We are called upon to commemorate a revolution (1689) as happy in its consequences, as full of the marks of a divine contrivance, as any age or country can show.: Francis Atterbury

As there are mountebanks for the natural body, so are there mountebanks for the politic body; men that perhaps have been lucky in two or three experiments, but want the grounds of science, and therefore cannot hold out.: Francis Bacon

Leagues within the state are ever pernicious to monarchies; for they raise an obligation paramount to obligations of sovereignty, and make the king tanquam unus ex nobis.: Francis Bacon

If a man so temper his actions as in some one of them he doth content every faction, the music of praise will be fuller.: Francis Bacon

I will say positively and resolutely that it is impossible an elective monarchy should be so free and absolute as an hereditary.: Francis Bacon

Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.: Bishop George Berkeley

Political reason is a computing principle,—adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing, morally, and not metaphysically, or mathematically, true moral demonstrations.: Edmund Burke

The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable.: Edmund Burke

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To give laws unto a people; to institute magistrates and officers over them; to punish and pardon malefactors; to have the sole authority of making war and peace, are the true marks of sovereignty.: Sir John Davies

After the fall of the republic the Romans combated only for the choice of masters.: Edward Gibbon

He that enjoyed crowns, and knew their worth, excepted them not out of the charge of universal vanity; and yet the politician is not discouraged at the inconstancy of human affairs, and the lubricity of his subject.: Joseph Glanvill

It is greater to understand the art whereby the Almighty governs the motions of the great automaton than to have learned the intrigues of policy.: Joseph Glanvill

Ceremonies are different in every country; but true politeness is everywhere the same.: Oliver Goldsmith

The most inviolable attachment to the laws of our country is everywhere acknowledged a capital virtue; and where the people are not so happy as to have any legislature but a single person, the strictest loyalty is, in that case, the truest patriotism.: David Hume

To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider what state all men are naturally in; and that is a state of perfect freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons.: John Locke

Political power I take to be a right of making laws with penalties; and of employing the force of the community in the execution of such laws, and in the defence of the common wealth; and all this only for the public good.: John Locke

A private conscience sorts not with a public calling, but declares that person rather meant by nature for a private fortune.: John Milton

Whilst politicians are disputing about monarchies, aristocracies, and republics, Christianity is alike applicable, useful, and friendly to them all.: William Paley

The world is become too busy for me: everybody is so concerned for the public that all private enjoyments are lost or disrelished.: Alexander Pope

The empire being elective, and not successive, the emperors, in being, made profit of their own times.: Sir Walter Raleigh

Men lay the blame of those evils whereof they know not the ground upon public misgovernment.: Sir Walter Raleigh

In a troubled state we must do as in foul weather upon a river, not to think to cut directly through, for the boat may be filled with water; but rise and fall as the waves do, and give way as much as we conveniently can.: John Selden

The thorough-paced politician must laugh at the squeamishness of his conscience, and read it another lecture.: Robert South

The man who can make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, grow on the spot where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and render more essential service to the country, than the whole race of politicians put together.: Jonathan Swift

All pretences to neutrality are justly exploded, only intending the safety and ease of a few individuals, while the public is embroiled. This was the opinion and practice of the latter Cato.: Jonathan Swift

States call in foreigners to assist them against a common enemy; but the mischief was, these allies would never allow that the common enemy was subdued.: Jonathan Swift

Public business suffers by private infirmities, and kingdoms fall into weaknesses by the diseases or decays of those that manage them.: Sir William Temple

The best service they could do to the state was to mend the lives of the persons who composed it.: Sir William Temple

There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.: George Washington

How many thousands pronounce boldly on the affairs of the public whom God nor men never qualified for such judgment!: Dr. Isaac Watts

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