Political Quotes - Page 18

• Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

  Ronald Reagan

  Freedom, Military, Moving

  Remarks to state chairs of National White House Conference on Small Business, 15 Aug. 1986

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  Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

  Lord Acton

  Inspirational, Leadership, Work

  Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 3 April 1887, in Louise Creighton 'Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton' (1904) vol. 1, ch. 13.

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• I don't believe in politics. I'm an anarchist, I guess you could say. I think people could be just fine looking after themselves.

  Woody Harrelson

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "Woody Harrelson: I'm an anarchist" by Caitlin Mcdevitt, www.politico.com. May 31, 2013.

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• Socialism means slavery.

  Lord Acton

  Mean, Eugenics, Slavery

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  Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

  John Adams

  Bible, God, Religious

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “Works: with a life of the author”, p.229

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• There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power.

  William Henry Harrison

  Nature, Military, Exercise

  David A. Durfee, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, United States. President (1841-1845 : Tyler) (1970). “William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841: John Tyler, 1790-1862; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Leadership, Art, Business

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.477, Best Books on

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• Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

  Frederick Douglass

  Freedom, Power, Tyrants

  Speech, Canandaigua, N.Y., 4 Aug. 1857

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• I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, Government, Liberty

  Letter to Archibald Stewart, 23 Dec. 1791

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  Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Strength, Peace, Strong

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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• Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

  Henry Adams

  Witty, Science, Political Will

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 24 (1907)

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• We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

  Aesop

  Witty, Government, Political Will

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the politics where you play the man not the politics.

  Johann Lamont

  Men, Play, Frustrated

  "Scottish Labour leader's mission: to revive the party... and save the union". Interview with Severin Carrell, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2011.

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• I read the newspaper.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Newspapers, Political Humor

  "President Bush on Iraq, Katrina, the Economy". “Nightly News” with Brian Williams, www.nbcnews.com. 2013.

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• While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

  John Adams

  Government, Years, Liberty

  "An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790-1840". Book by Robert A. Gross and Mary Kelley, 2010.

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• The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

  John F. Kennedy

  Nwo, People, Secret

  Address to the American Newspaper Publishers, delivered 27 April 1961, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Patriotic, Years

  Theodore Roosevelt (1921). “Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star: War-time Editorials”

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• What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

  Abraham Lincoln

  Success, Politics, Adherence

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• No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

  William Cowper

  Men, Politics, Patriot

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• You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.

  Bernard Baruch

  Struggle, Government, Get Better

  In The Times 20 Aug. 1964

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• The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.

  James Buchanan

  Patriotic, Men, Presidential

  James Buchanan (2006). “State of the Union Addresses”, p.309, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

  Edmund Burke

  Change, Mean, Diversity

  Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

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• I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.

  George H. W. Bush

  Patriotic, Nuts, Politics

  "Vice President George Bush today joked that Geraldine Ferraro's..." by Ira R. Allen, www.upi.com. August 22, 1984.

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• I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.

  George H. W. Bush

  Believe, President, Politics

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• I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

  George H. W. Bush

  Believe, Patriotic, Politics

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