Nationally syndicated column number 31, A Few Shots of Scopolamin (15 July 1923), after meeting Robert E. House, who had proposed the use of scopolamine as a truth serum, in The Use of Scopolamine in Criminology (1922).
Weekly columns
Context: See they conducted experiments on convicts... I don't know on what grounds they reason a man in jail is a bigger liar than one out of jail... The chances are telling the truth is what got him there... It would be a big aid to humanity, but it will never be, for already the politicians are up in arms against it... It would wreck the very foundation on which our political government is run... If you ever injected truth into politics you'd have no politics … Even the ministers are denouncing it now … Humanity is not yet ready for either real truth or real harmony.
“Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth”
Isaiah Berlin and Ramin Jahanbegloo, Conversations with Isaiah Berlin. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1991)
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“Good government is good politics and politics is good government.”
[The Mayors: The Chicago Political Tradition, Paul Michael Green, Melvin G. Holli, Southern Illinois University Press, 1995, 144, ISBN 0809319616]
An ofttimes repeated maxim of Daley's to describe his view on the inseparability of politics and government.
Conclusion, p. 414
A History of Economic Thought (1939)
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
“Political institutions are a superstructure on the economic foundation.”
The Three Sources and Three Constituent Parts of Marxism (March 1913)
1910s
Responding to President Trump’s Request for Missouri Voter Information http://ashcroftformissouri.com/2017/07/02/responding-to-president-trumps-request-for-missouri-voter-information/ (July 2, 2017)
Third Session of Parliament (June 30, 2007)
Six Principles of Political Realism http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/morg6.htm, § 1.
Politics Among Nations (1948)
Context: Political realism believes that politics, like society in general, is governed by objective laws that have their roots in human nature. In order to improve society it is first necessary to understand the laws by which society lives. The operation of these laws being impervious to our preferences, men will challenge them only at the risk of failure.
Realism, believing as it does in the objectivity of the laws of politics, must also believe in the possibility of developing a rational theory that reflects, however imperfectly and one-sidedly, these objective laws. It believes also, then, in the possibility of distinguishing in politics between truth and opinion — between what is true objectively and rationally, supported by evidence and illuminated by reason, and what is only a subjective judgment, divorced from the facts as they are and informed by prejudice and wishful thinking.
