"Ask me if you choose if a Cynic shall engage in the administration of the State. O fool, seek you a nobler administra…"

"Is the ordinary person incompetent? No judgment is more decisive for one's political philosophy. It was perhaps the s…"

"A major danger in using highly abstractive methods in political philosophy is that one will succeed merely in general…"

"In attempting to teach the prince how to achieve, maintain, and expand power, Machiavelli made his fundamental and ce…"

"The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerf…"

"There is the same difference between political theory and constitutional laws as there is between poetics and poetry.…"

"Today political science is often said to be ‘descriptive’ or ‘empirical,’ concerned with facts; political philosophy …"

"At its heart, political philosophy is about power: who has it, what they do with it, and toward what ends."

"If I were to attempt to put my political philosophy tonight into a single phrase, it would be this: Trust the people.…"

"The founder of modern political philosophy is Machiavelli. He tried to effect, and he did effect, a break with the wh…"