Political Quotes - Page 21

• Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Freedom, Men, People

  Nods and Becks (1944) SeeW. C. Fields 21

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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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• Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

  John Adams

  Party, Government, Unnecessary War

  John Adams (2016). “John Adams: Writings from the New Nation, 1784-1826”, p.814, Library of America

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• Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Cynical, Politics

  Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

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• Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

  Oscar Ameringer

  Life, Witty, Art

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• The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that “the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Democracies Have, Australia Day

  Noam Chomsky (1997). “World Orders, Old and New”, p.89, Pluto Press

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• An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

  Simon Cameron

  Honesty, Political Will, Definitions

  Attributed in "Chronicles of America Series" by Allen Johnson, Yale University Press, 1918.

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• I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

  James Madison

  Freedom, Believe, Power

  Speech at Virginia Convention, 5 June 1788

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• Man is by nature a political animal.

  Aristotle

  Nature, Philosophical, Animal

  Politics bk. 1, 1253a

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• There are only two (major) parties today: The Stupid Party and The Evil Party. Once in a while the two parties get together to do something that is both stupid and evil, and that's called Bipartisanship.

  Thomas Woods

  Stupid, Party, Government

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• We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.

  Anita Borg

  Unique, Impact, Building

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• Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Power, Needs, Done

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• The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Country, Memorial Day

  "The Czar's Soliloquy". Essay by Mark Twain, first published in The North American Review, No. DLXXX (p. 324), March 1905.

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• Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Religious, Freedom

  "The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment". "God in the Dock". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1970.

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• Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

  Oscar Wilde

  Gossip, Scandal, Morality

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.9, Oscar Wilde

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• All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Fear

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.147, Broadway Books

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• What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.

  Newt Gingrich

  Leader, Voters, Majority

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• Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Eye, Men, Office

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.25, Modern Library

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• I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.

  Bill Maher

  Biblical, People, Constitution

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• There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Grandmother, Two, Diversity

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote”, p.643, Collector's Library

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• They that possess the prince possess the laws.

  John Dryden

  Law, Politics

  John Dryden, “Absalom And Achitophel”

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