Politics Quotes

If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians, the common people would not be stirred.

The feminine section of the proletarian army is of particularly great significance... the success of a revolution depends on the extent to which women take part in it.

the real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development

Bullshit is the glue that binds us as a nation.

Hillary has the brains of someone who was born yesterday and the body of someone who died last week.

Most politicians lie for the same reason a monkey swings by his tail, which is to say because he can.

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee...

In most gardens they make the beds too soft – so that the flowers are always asleep.

and then the chosen lie would pass into the permanent records and become truth

A mob always picked its own leaders, and it always picked the right ones.

Jonathan had been around Washington long enough to know that no offer was exactly what it seemed.

If you treat people right they will treat you right ... ninety percent of the time.

Consumers are what’s going to change the world, not necessarily industries or governments,

Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

One must divide one's time between politics and equations. But our equations are much more important to me, because politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.

What is above all needed is to let the meaning choose the word, and not the other way around. In prose, the worst thing you can do with words is to surrender to them.

Republics exist as long as the people "adhere to principles and virtue.

There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of 'expediency.' There is no such thing as sliding up hill. In morals, the only sliders are backsliders.

The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it's going to bother you...and then, the worse things get.

Are there good governments and bad governments? No, there are only bad governments and worse governments.

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)

For forms of Government let fools contest. Whate'er is best administered is best.

A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world.

We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners. And necessity has made us allies. Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder.

Peace is a process - a way of solving problems.

Human beings are by nature political animals

in our age there is no such thing as " keeping out of politics " all issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and .

I believe that, in this country, the press exerts a greater and a more pernicious influence than the church did in its worst period. We are not a religious people, but we are a nation of politicians.

If conquest constitutes a natural right on the part of the few, the many have only to gather sufficient strength in order to acquire the natural right of reconquering what has been taken from them

Imagine all contradictions, all possible incompatibilities--you will find them in the government, in the law-courts, in the churches, in the public shows of this droll nation.

Advocates of capitalism like to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

Mr. Craig was not above talking politics occasionally, though he piqued himself rather on a wise insight than on specific information.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy "Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide."

If we cannot now end our differences at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problems of wheat.

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

The world is a dangerous place to live - not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Party-spirit . . . which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Damn your principles! Stick to your party!

Politics is the gizzard of society full of gut and gravel.

The more you read about politics the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics for then we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meannesses for the public good.

The lady's not for turning.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of polities'. All issues are political issues.

I pledge you I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people. Let us all here assembled constitute ourselves prophets of a new order of competence and courage. This is a call to arms.

Politics is more dangerous than war for in war you are only killed once.