George Santayana Quote

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.


The Life of Reason: Reason in society (ed. 1919)


Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.