Political Quotes - Page 16

• Considersing the forebearance of a person, Do not harass him.

  Chanakya

  Persons

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• Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.

  Farley Mowat

  Power, Government, Canada

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• Let's not forget what the origin of the problem is. There is no place in modern Europe for ethnically pure states. That's a 19th century idea and we are trying to transition into the 21st century, and we are going to do it with multi-ethnic states.

  Wesley Clark

  War, Europe, Ideas

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• It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy; power is enough. Only the weak rely on diplomacy. The Roman Empire had no need for diplomacy. Nor does the United States.

  Boutros Boutros-Ghali

  War, Power, Usa

  "Unvanquished: A U.S. - U.N. Saga". Book by Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 1999.

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• We were happy a hundred years ago. We knew that there were exploiters and exploited, wealthy and poor, and we had a perfect idea of how to get rid of injustice; we would expropriate the owners and turn the wealth over to the common good. We expropriated the owners and we created one of the most monstrous and oppressive social systems in world history. And we keep repeating that in principle everything was all right, only some unfortunate accidents slipped in and slightly spoiled the good idea. Now let us start afresh.

  Leszek Kolakowski

  War, Ideas, Years

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• Government is best which governs least

  Thomas Paine

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Government

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• Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Funny, Politics, Likes

  To Matthew Arnold, in G. W. E. Russell 'Collections and Recollections' (1898) ch. 23

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• The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Phrases, Politics, Affair

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4987, Delphi Classics

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• Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Preparation, Progress, Politics

  'Coningsby' (1844) bk. 2, ch. 5

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• Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Politics, Telling The Truth

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.786, Delphi Classics

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• There is no gambling like politics.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Gambling, Politics

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5026, Delphi Classics

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• In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

  Will Durant

  Stress, Discovery, Order

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• We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Powerful, Opportunity, Politics

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3417, Delphi Classics

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• There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Character, Voice, Politics

  Tancred Bk II, Ch. I

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• I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

  Winston Churchill

  Taken, Events, Politics

  Sir Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Onwards to Victory”, p.19, RosettaBooks

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• No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Fighting, Politics

  Winston Churchill (1947). “Great Contemporaries”

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• William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Politics, Gladstone, Defects

  "Are Britain's politicians losing the power of speech?" by Peter Hoskin, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 20, 2012.

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• Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Courage, Military, War

  Carl von Clausewitz (2012). “Principles of War”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.

  Grover Cleveland

  Honor, Republic, Politics

  Veto of Dependent Pension Bill, 5 July 1888

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• You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.

  Hillary Clinton

  Friends, Fighting, People

  "The Agenda". Book by Bob Woodward, June 6, 1994.

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• The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.

  William J. Clinton

  Government, Common Sense, Politics

  William J. Clinton “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1995, Bk. 1, January 1 to June 30, 1995”, Government Printing Office

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• I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.

  William J. Clinton

  Food, Mcdonalds, Hype

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• The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Simple, Accountability, Politics

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• In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Office, Important, Politics

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• No poll can equal the day-to-day visits of the men and women of the Democratic Party.

  Richard J. Daley

  Party, Men, Politics

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