Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Milton Rakove
American Educator, Political Adviser, Political Historian, Author and Professor of Political Science
"The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his party's victory."
"[Rakove’s Law of Principle and Politics] The citizen is influenced by principle in direct proportion to this distance from the political situation."
"How to pursue his private interests while at the same time convincing the electorate that he is pursuing the public interest is the major task of the politician, particularly in a democracy, where the sovereign voters have the power to arbitrarily bring his career to a sudden end."