107 result(s) for Political Quotes.
"The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority."
"If voting made any difference, they wouldn’t let us do it."
"The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it."
"War is the health of the state."
"Politics is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving."
"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
"The best way to predict your future is to create it."
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"It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backward."
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
"In politics, the middle way is none at all."
"What you see depends on where you stand."
"A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience."
"Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives."
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction."
"If you don't know politics, you don't know what's going on."
"Politics is not the exercise of power but the exercise of reason."
"The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history."
"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
"Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody."
"Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen."
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"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."
"I may not always be right, but I'm never wrong."
"Politicians are like diapers, they both need changing regularly and for the same reason."
"A bureaucracy is a circle of demons."
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."
"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups."
"The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth."
"In politics, stupidity is not a handicap."
"Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason."
"Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed."
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies."
"The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved."
"If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies."
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"Politics is about who gets what, when, and how."
"In a democracy, the people get the government they deserve."
"Good government is no substitute for self-government."
"The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do."
"You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money."
"If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it."
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
"In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman."
"Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing."
"The first duty of a leader is to make himself appear led."
"All politics is local."
"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence."
"The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence—it is to act with yesterday’s logic."
"Politics is the art of the possible."
"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."
"A fool and his money are soon elected."
"Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and how."
"The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing."
"An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry."
"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
"It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is how we use what we have."
"He who knows how to think has escaped the most difficult part of learning how to think."
"There are no solutions, only trade-offs."
"Let us be a little humble; let us think that the truth may not perhaps be entirely with us."
"In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman."
"Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business."
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others."
"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
"A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman thinks of the next generation."
"I have not yet begun to fight!"
"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable."
"The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic."
"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."
"If voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it."
"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
"We hang the petty criminals and appoint the great ones to public office."
"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."
"In politics, your enemies can be your greatest allies."
"It is not enough to win. Others must lose."
"The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind."
"Politics means choosing between the lesser of two evils."
"I would rather be a nobody, than to be an evil somebody."
"Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory."
"There are no asterisks in politics."
"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth."
"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."
"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
"The government is best which governs least."
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."
"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government."
"You don't lead by hitting people over the head. That's assault, not leadership."
"Peace is not merely the absence of war, but the presence of justice."
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
"I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end."
"There is no alternative."
"One person can make a difference, and everyone should try."
"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled."
"The duty of youth is to challenge corruption."
"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal."
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
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