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The Republican and Democratic parties are alike capitalist parties — differing only in being committed to different sets of capitalist interests.
Eugene V. Debs1855–1926The Socialist Party and the Working Class (1904)
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Lothair (1870), Ch. 17.
- Democracy
I am neither Whig nor Tory. My politics are described by one word, and that word is ENGLAND.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881England and France; Or, A Cure for the Ministerial Gallomania (1832), p. 13
- Patriotism
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Campaign speech at High Wycombe (27 November 1832), quoted in Selected Speeches of the Late Right Honourable the Earl of Beaconsfield, Vol. 1 (1882)
Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.
Peter Drucker1909–2005The Practice of Management (1954), p. 41
- Business
- Economics
Capitalism works not through coercion or conquest, but through the consent of the consumer.
Dinesh D'Souzaborn 1961America: Imagine the World Without Her (2014)
- Business
- Economics
Fascism became an all-purpose term because one can eliminate from a fascist regime one or more features, and it will still be recognizable as fascist.
Umberto Eco1932–2016Ur-Fascism (1995)
Ur-Fascism is still around us, sometimes in plainclothes.
Umberto Eco1932–2016Ur-Fascism (1995)
I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles.
Thomas Edison1847–1931The Philosophy of Paine (1925)
- America
The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Why Socialism? (1949)
- Economics
If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969
- War & Peace
I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969
I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the Presidency.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969
Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969