Political Parties Quotes - Page 3

• The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.

  George Washington

  Wise, Party, People

  George Washington (1810). “Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States”, p.12

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• The fastest growing political party is no party.

  Chuck Todd

  Party, Political, Growing

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• He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Father, Philosophy, Party

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1400, Delphi Classics

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• Young people today seem to be coming around to the idea it really doesn’t matter which politician or political party you vote for; and they’re catching on that it doesn’t even matter if you don’t vote because they have realized modern elections are just a way for the 1% to appease the 99% – a way to keep the masses in line by making them believe they’ve had their say, thereby perpetuating the lie that democracy continues.

  James Morcan

  Lying, Party, Believe

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• I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally.

  George Washington

  Party, Views, Spirit

  George Washington, William Jackson (1838). “Monuments of Washington's Patriotism: Containing a Fac Simile of His Publick Accounts Kept During the Revolutionary War; and Some of the Most Interesting Documents Connected with His Military Command and Civil Administration; Embracing, Among Others, the Farewell Address to the People of the United States”, p.15

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• The alternate triumphs of different parties ... make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels.

  George Washington

  Party, Mirrors, Triumph

  George Washington (1852). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.327

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• In spite of the anticapitalistic policies of all governments and of almost all political parties, the capitalist mode of production

  Ludwig von Mises

  Party, Government, Political

  Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”

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• Political parties serve to keep each other in check, one keenly watching the other.

  Henry Clay

  Party, Political, Politics

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• I can't vote again ever, so political party is not a relevant thing for me.

  Jack Abramoff

  Party, Political, Vote

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• The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Party, Men, Political

  Interview With Zahid Hussain, newslinemagazine.com. July 2002.

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• When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Christian, Spiritual, Country

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Raymond Martin (1997). “Krishnamurti: Reflections on the Self”, p.94, Open Court Publishing

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• It's easy to talk about our system not functioning. It's actually functioning exactly the way we've designed it to function by giving so much power to the political parties, which all of our, you know, leading founders - Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison - all said don't create political parties like the ones we have now. We did it, and we're paying a very high price for it.

  Mickey Edwards

  Party, Giving, Political

  "Former Republican Congressman: Dysfunction In Washington Is 'Systemic'". "Here & Now" with Jeremy Hobson, ijpr.org. October 18, 2013.

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• In my own experience, I have been amazed to see how unrealistic are the bases for political opinion in general. Only rarely have I found a person who has chosen any particular political party - democratic or totalitarian - through study and comparison of principles.

  Joost Meerloo

  Party, Political Opinions, Atheism

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• What I was utterly convinced of, and still am, is the idea that the only responsibility the free intellectual has is vis-a-vis himself. He is not responsible to either a political party or a ruler.

  Tawfiq al-Hakim

  Party, Responsibility, Ideas

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• The social model of the Bolsheviks failed, as will any model that denies individual rights, intellectual freedom, and freedom of competing political parties. Without these freedoms and rights, there is no motivation for people to work. Such a system cannot be sustained, especially in light of the technological revolution of the information era.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Motivation, War, Party

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• There is a hundred things to single you out for promotion in party politics besides ability.

  Will Rogers

  Party, Political, Promotion

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• Simon Wiesenthal told me that any political party in a democracy that uses the word 'freedom' in its name is either Nazi or Communist.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Party, Names, Political

  "Balkan Ghost". Book by Robert D. Kaplan, 1993.

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• When you see the political parties squabble, if a baby is not allowed to be born, all the other issues do not come into play.

  Alveda King

  Baby, Party, Play

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• All of a sudden inscriptions appeared on walls. Signs appeared. And that 'no' exploded all over India, in an act of pride that surprised even me. Then even the political parties, all of them, even the deputies in Parliament, said no: it's better to die of hunger than be taken for a nation of beggars.

  Indira Gandhi

  Wall, Party, Taken

  Source: sangam.org

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• Work can be undertaken to create an authentic independent political party, a real party, based on popular participation from the ground up, not a top-down candidate producing organization like the two official parties, working from school boards to state legislatures and beyond. Not easy in the regressive U.S. political system, but not impossible.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, Party, School

  Source: www.brooklynrail.org

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• The Founders didn't mention political parties when they wrote the Constitution, and George Washington in essence warned us against them in his Farewell Address.

  Marianne Williamson

  Party, Farewell, Essence

  "This is Los Angeles: We Don’t Do the Same Old, Same Old Here" by Marianne Williamson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2014.

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• In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Party, Two, Political

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• It would drive a person crazy to dope out really what does divide the two parties. Prosperity don't divide the two parties, for under either administration the poor get poorer and the rich get richer.

  Will Rogers

  Crazy, Party, Dope

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.159, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The three main political parties all agree the UK deficit is high and needs to be brought down. All agree that it is easier to get a deficit down if you have faster growth, cutting unemployment-related costs and raising revenues.

  John Redwood

  Party, Cutting, Political

  "UK growth depends on tax rates that people are prepared to pay" by John Redwood, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2012.

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• Never will we be able to understand our times if we naively 'think' of this system of self Government as the work of a few gangsters or the creation of a pack of criminals we call a political party. The appeal of Socialism, Fascism and communism was principally negative; they were protests against a live and let live anything goes liberalism, a spineless indifference to causes, a failure to recognize that nothing was evil enough to hate, and nothing was good enough to die for.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Hate, Party, Thinking

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