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There is⁠—in world affairs⁠—a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969State of the Union Address (February 2, 1952)
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969Letter to his brother Edgar Newton Eisenhower (8 November 1954)
- Government
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
George Eliot1819–1880Often credited to T. S. Eliot
You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that [is] it’s an opportunity to do things that you think you could not before.
Rahm Emanuelborn 1959Interview to the Wall Street Journal, November 19, 2008.
Solvency is maintained by means of the national debt, on the principle, “If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?”
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882English Traits (1856), Ability
- Economics
The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882The Conservative (1841)
- Change
Communism is the doctrine of the conditions of the liberation of the proletariat.
Friedrich Engels1820–1895Principles of Communism (1847)
My principles are only those that, before the French revolution, every well-born person considered healthy and normal.
Julius Evola1898–1974Speech when on trial in 1951 for glorifying fascism, quoted by E. Christian Kopff in the foreword to Evola’s work A Traditionalist Confronts Fascism, xxii–xxiii
Most revolutionary movements are unable to practise among themselves what they preach. Strong leadership cults, factionalism, ‘ego-tripping’, backbiting are the rule rather than the exception.
SFShulamith Firestone1945–2012The Dialectic of Sex (1970), ch. 2, p. 39
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
Jane Fondaborn 1937Newsweek, 1977, in reference to Jean-Luc Godard
- Power
An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.
Gerald Ford1913–2006Remarks in the U.S. House of Representatives in an effort to impeach Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas (15 April 1970); recorded in the Congressional Record, vol. 116, p. 11913 and.
- Laws
The unjust distribution of goods persists, creating a situation of social sin that cries out to Heaven and limits the possibilities of a fuller life for so many of our brothers.
Pope Francis1936–2025Said during a gathering of Latin American bishops, as quoted in ‘Option for the Poor’ alive and well in Latin America, National Catholic Reporter (21 May 2007)
- Economics
- Justice
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790
Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Milton Friedman1912–2006Capitalism and Freedom (1962), Ch. 1 The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom, 2002 edition, page 15
The basic problem of social organization is how to co-ordinate the economic activities of large numbers of people.
Milton Friedman1912–2006Capitalism and Freedom (1962), Ch. 1 The Relation Between Economic Freedom and Political Freedom, p. 12
- Economics