Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money.

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

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

I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist. [In a letter about the peculiar 'Marxism' which arose in France 1882].

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.