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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in an argument.

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery.

Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.

[A]llow neither rich men nor beggars. These two estates, which are naturally inseparable, are equally fatal to the common good; from the one come the friends of tyranny, and from the other tyrants. It is always between them that public liberty is put up to auction; the one buys, and the other sells.

Liberal institutions straightaway cease from being liberal the moment they are soundly established; once this is attained no more grevious and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it and then misapplying the wrong remedies.

Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done, will rather bring about his own ruin than his preservation.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

In a totally liberal economic system, certain people accumulate considerable fortunes; others stagnate in unemployment and misery. In a totally liberal sexual system, certain people have a varied and exciting erotic life; others are reduced to masturbation and solitude.

The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth.