M. Stanton Evans Quotes

Politics is often monopolized by political leaders … and when it is, things do not always go the right way for the people.

When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.

The electoral system is not where change starts - it usually starts in communities and from the bottom up - but it is where change can be stopped.

I can't get very excited about the House of Commons these days because I don't feel the power is there. What is really bizarre is that you sense it is not in Washington either. It is now very hard even to locate the levers of power, let alone to pull them and change things.

Electing a black president was probably the only coup America could pull off.

The purpose of the minority is to become the majority.

A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.

He who is the most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power is as eager after for the prerogatives of government.

I am not in Washington as a statesman. I am there as a very well paid messenger boy doing your errands. My chief occupation is going around with a forked stick picking up little fragments of patronage for my constituents.

Fearing the weakness of democracy, men have always sought safety in technocrats. But ... [we] have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down before the divine right of experts.

Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion can change the government practically just so much.

Corruption can be a lubricant reducing the friction between new elites and old elites in a period of rapid change.

The best Party is but a kind of Conspiracy against the rest of the Nation. They put everybody else out of their Protection

The relationship between the policy desires of the wealthiest 10 percent of the population and the actual Federal public policy over recent decades often corresponded to a plutocracy rather than a democracy.

Social change … almost inevitably leads to the rise of new political actors demanding a voice and a share of power.

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.

As a young man, you're dazzled by the power of the White House and all that. But power tends to corrupt.

If we genuinely believe in a bigger future for our country, we have to redistribute both wealth and power - so people can take back control for good, not just for one vote.

Political books are so often written from the perspective of the politicians, not from the point of view of the people.

If you want to have a big impact, government is the way to do it. Just think of the number of people you can touch.

The sheer scale at which one is able to create change as elected representatives is unmatched.

We have enough votes to run the country. And when the people say, We've had enough, we are going to take over.

The shortest way to change a radical into a conservative, a liberal into a tyrant, a man into a beast, is to give him power over his fellows.

I am interested in power, too, but power for you, the people, not power for bureaucrats and politicians and officeholders and all the like.

The people are fashioned according to the example of their kings; and edicts are of less power than the life of their ruler.