Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes About Politics

Quotes about: Politics

• A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Political, Politics, Politician

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.69

• A politician weakly and amiably in the right is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong. You cannot, by tying an opinion, to a man's tongue, make him the representative of that opinion; and at the close of any battle for principles, his name will be found neither among the dead nor among the wounded, but among the missing.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Men, Names, Missing

• The strife of politics tends to unsettle the calmest understanding, and ulcerate the most benevolent heart. There are no bigotries or absurdities too gross for parties to create or adopt under the stimulus of political passions.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Party, Passion, Heart

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.49

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