Thomas Carlyle on Politics
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Thomas Carlyle, catalogued under Politics, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Thomas Carlyle, entry #48813: "Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all."
Attributed to Thomas Carlyle, entry #79952: "Theocracy, Government of God, is precisely the thing to be struggled for!"
4 Quotes by Thomas Carlyle on Politics
"Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all."
"Theocracy, Government of God, is precisely the thing to be struggled for!"
"Find in any country the Ablest Man that exists there; raise him to the supreme place, and loyally reverence him: you have a perfect government for that country; no ballot-box, parliamentary eloquence, voting, constitution-building, or other machinery whatsoever can improve it a whit."
"By what method or methods can the able men from every rank of life be gathered, as diamond-grains from the general mass of sand: the able men, not the sham-able;—and set to do the work of governing, contriving, administering and guiding for us!" It is the question of questions. All that Democracy ever meant lies there: the attainment of a truer and truer Aristocracy, or Government again by the Best."