Political Quotes - Page 20

• If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Funny, Wise

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

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• The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.

  Rachel Maddow

  Honesty, Gay, Insults You

  Late Night with Conan O'Brien, November 21, 2008.

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• Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

  Plato

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

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• Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, War, Party

  Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (222), 1956.

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• The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Men, Politics, Election

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• All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Religious

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1998). “You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities”, p.6, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

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• Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Quoted in Albert B. Paine, Mark Twain: A Biography (1912)

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• Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Real, Distribution Of Power, Politics

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

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  Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

  Thomas Paine

  Motivation, War, 4th Of July

  Common Sense (1776)

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• Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Witty, Democracies Have, Voting

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• Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Distance, Politics, Prestige

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• The first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is not most clearly and indispensably necessary for the safety and well being of society.

  Richard Henry Lee

  Freedom, Men, Power

  Richard Henry Lee (1825). “Memoir of the Life of Richard H. Lee, and His Correspondence with the Most Distinguished Men in America and Europe”, p.61

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• All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Change, Ideas, Leave Me Alone

  Orthodoxy (1908) ch. 7

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• You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Complaining, Politics, Motive

  In Harold Nicolson Diary (1967) 21 July 1943

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• A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Yelling, Politics, Conservative

  "Why Republican Politicians Keep Selling Out Freedom" by Jo Jorgensen, gos.sbc.edu. 1996.

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• You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

  Barbara Bush

  Powerful, Thinking, President

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• I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

  George H. W. Bush

  Thinking, Politics, Dodge

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• But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

  George H. W. Bush

  Issues, Guy, Tables

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• Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Politics, Nine, Trouble

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• Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Money, Evil, Politics

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.247, Courier Corporation

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• Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Mind, Wish, Lines

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3039, Delphi Classics

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• Damn your principles! Stick to your party.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Party, Principles, Politics

  Attributed to Disraeli and believed to have been said to Edward Bulwer-Lytton, in E. Latham 'Famous Sayings and their Authors' (1904) p. 11

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• If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Clever, Politics, Should

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• Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.

  Frederick Douglass

  Freedom, Patriotic, People

  "Life and Times of Frederick Douglass". The Illustrated Edition,

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• Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Politics, Serious, Noble

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