Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.

The plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.

The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.

Politics are, as it were, the market place and the price mechanism of all social demands - though there is no guarantee that a just price will be struck; and there is nothing spontaneous about politics- it depends on deliberate and continuous activity.

Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupation of free men, and its existence is a test of freedom. The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.