Political Stability Quotes

Britain is no longer in the politics of the pendulum, but of the ratchet.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries.

My final aim is to bring Iran, within twenty years, to the same level of civilization and progress as will be enjoyed by the most highly developed countries. During the last ten years the degree of our backwardness has been halved, but it is this remaining backwardness which will be the most difficult to combat.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Albania has to demonstrate that it is willing to be a reliable partner in the international community.

We are a slack people but deeply destructive … I think that a constitutional regime would mean the end of Russia. We need a despot!

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

… something with monarchical power in it would be most effectual for the settlement of the nation

The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.

I believe that democracy will prevail, so long as the United States stays with these young democracies to help them.

I can confirm that Poland should become a eurozone country, and not just because of the treaties that have been signed, but because I consider it of strategic interest both for Poland and the E.U.

We can not have free government without elections. And if the rebellion could force us to forgo, or postpone a national election, it might fairly claim to have conquered or ruined us.

The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the first act of the drama is closed. It remains yet to establish and perfect our new forms of government, and to prepare the principles, morals, and manners of our citizens for these forms of government after they are established and brought to perfection.

Democracy is usually seen as a pacifying force that “draws the teeth” from conflict.

The right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively is essential to the balance of powers on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends.

Our Union rests upon public opinion, and can never be cemented by the blood of its citizens shed in civil war.

No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.

There is an error common to both oligarchies and to democracies: in the latter the demagogues, when the multitude are above the law, are always cutting the city in two by quarrels with the rich, whereas they should always profess to be maintaining their cause; just as in oligarchies the oligarchs should profess to maintain the cause of the people, . .

It is absolutely no accident that the peace and reconciliation, and indeed the economic progress, that eluded us generation after generation for hundreds of years, has at last come to pass in an Ireland where the talents of women are now flooding every aspect of life as never before.

Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. True peace with oneself and with the world around us can only be achieved through the development of mental peace.

China is not going to become a liberal democracy; if it did, it would collapse. I do not believe you can impose on other countries standards which are alien and totally disconnected with their past.

Are there topics of sufficient import to the nation's well-being to replace the Soviets as the focus of U.S. intelligence?

When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete.

When people come and invest in India, they invest on a certain premise, and the fact that the very premise can change worries them a lot.

Democracy and violence can ill go together.