Politics Quotes

Once you were in the hands of a Grand Vizier, you were dead. Grand Viziers were always scheming mega...

But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate wit...

One of the hardest lessons in young Sam's life had been finding out that the people in charge weren'...

I also hold a settling of questions by the referendum to be an unsatisfactory procedure, because the...

It is politics to please and hoodwink thoseWho flatter but despise us.

In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

If this country is really to go forward along the path of social and economic justice, there must be...

I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in wit...

Our fight is a fundamental fight against both of the old corrupt party machines, for both are under ...

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the co...

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not ...

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where th...

Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the hist...

To befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics is the first task of the s...

Yet through virtuous living man is further ordained to a higher end, which consists in the enjoyment...

Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle...

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for wit...

Therefor I doubt not but, if it had been a thing contrary to any man’s right of dominion, or to the ...

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who partici...

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political wo...

I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation...

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that th...

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

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors...

The dead should not rule the living.

I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in relig...

The care of human life and happiness, and their destruction is the first and only legitimate object ...

...never [enter] into dispute or argument with another. I never saw an instance of one of two disput...

...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.

If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by de...

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending t...

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder...

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if w...

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political wo...

Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But t...

not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of . . . but to place before ...

The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of a...

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infan...

It is even so in a commonwealth and in the councils of princes; if ill opinions cannot be quite root...

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approv...

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of d...

In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the cons...

But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be a...

Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for ...

And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any prep...

All told, over the period 1932-1980, nearly half a century, the top federal income tax rate in the U...

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you...

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to ...

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on th...

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those ...

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

Despite widespread misconceptions in the United States today that the institution of slavery was bas...

I think we're raising whole generations who regard facts as more or less optional. We have kids in e...

Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, wh...

The power of the intelligentsia is demonstrated not only by their ability to create a general climat...

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue...

The staunchest conservatives advocate a range of changes which differ in specifics, rather than in n...

What sense would it make to classify a man as handicapped because he is in a wheelchair today, if he...

I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing th...

I suppose if we gain anything from this unsought experience it will be an appreciation for honesty- ...

It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that ev...

And, you know, politics aside, the success of Sarah Palin and women like her is good for all women -...

Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In wha...

One presidential advisor to another: "If the world made sense, we'd all have to find honest work.

If after hearing my songs just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or per...

Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

They accepted my donation, so they're aware they'd better serve my interests or I'll buy some leader...

I believe in political solutions to political problems. But man's primary problems aren't political;...

The trouble with socialists is that they let their bleeding hearts go to their bloody heads.

What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The...

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

Everybody gets everything handed to them. The rich inherit it. I don't mean just inheritance of mone...

I don't believe any real artists have ever been non-political. They may have been insensitive to thi...

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place with...

All of that art-for-art’s-sake stuff is BS,” she declares. “What are these people talking about? Are...

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.

The systematic looting of language can be recognized by the tendency of its users to forgo its nuanc...

An educated, healthy & confident nation is harder to govern

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly...

I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is prob...

For most normal people, politics is a distant, occasionally irritating fog.

The idea of politics is just so uninteresting to me - I've never paid much attention to it. I don't ...

Every page should explode, either because of its staggering absurdity, the enthusiasm of its princip...

The trouble with all these far-right and far-left mentalities is that they can encompass only one si...

So if black power means black armies racing through the streets, creating havoc, that certainly does...

Hitler was calling upon Almighty God to give him courage and strength to save the German people and ...

What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simp...

Certainly, I approve of political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop.

An Odonian undertook monogamy just as he might undertake a joint enterprise in production, a ballet ...

For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead king...

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issu...

To say that an Orgota government fell means, of course, only that one group of Commensals replaced a...

Though Argaven might be neither sane nor shrewd, he had had long practice in the evasions and challe...

His themes were not pride and love at all, though he used the words perpetually; as he used them the...

How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people...

The state can't give you freedom, and the state can't take it away. You'reborn with it, like your ey...

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where every...

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a ...

Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other...