“The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology, because among political parties, as elsewhere, the vulgar make the language, and the vulgar abandon more easily the ideas that have been instilled into it than the words that it has learnt.” Has BeensIdeasLastsPoliticalLanguagePartyAbandonAbandonedElsewhereVulgarPolitical Parties Book:Memoir, Letters, and Remains of Alexis de Tocqueville Source: Memoir, Letters, and Remains of Alexis de Tocqueville
“Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.” Has BeensPoliticalPoliticsPowerCorruptionAbandonIntoxicatedTerm Limits Author:Edmund Burke