Quotations | Tony Carella

March 4, 2025

Every country has the government it deserves.

March 5, 2025

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion

March 6, 2025

Democracy is rarely beautiful in its workings, for the many refuse to be refined, restrained, and artistic.

March 7, 2025

Men on white horses armed with simple solutions are the answer when people decide they’ve had enough of “politics as usual.”

March 8, 2025

A government needs one hundred soldiers for every guerrilla it faces.

March 9, 2025

Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free

March 10, 2025

Every economic system, whether Capitalist or Socialist, degenerates into a system of privilege and exploitation unless it is policed by a social morality

March 11, 2025

Finality is not the language of politics.

March 12, 2025

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

March 13, 2025

Those who exercise power and determine policy are generally men whose minds have been formed by events twenty or thirty years before.

March 14, 2025

[Of political life] The hatreds which sound so real when you read the words, which look so true when you see their scornful attitudes

March 15, 2025

Men ought to pay a great deal more attention to substance and realities than to ceremonies.

March 16, 2025

Whatever politicians, activists and manipulators propose, it is the phlegmatic, indifferent, ingrained electorate which disposes.

March 17, 2025

I want to see Ireland as an example to men and women everywhere of what can be achieved by living for ideals rather than fighting for them

March 18, 2025

It’s 90 per cent of the politicians who give the other 10 per cent a bad name.

March 19, 2025

Simplicity rarely loses to complexity in battles in the public square.

March 20, 2025

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

March 21, 2025

[Of two fellow congressmen] They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

March 22, 2025

Kim Campbell, the first female prime minister of Canada, was right when she said a 47-day-long election campaign (Imagine a campaign of only 47 days!) was not enough time to reconsider the nation’s social programs. But she was wrong to say so.