If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.
They that possess the prince possess the laws.
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
Since the dawn of history, mankind has honoured and respected brave and honest people.
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few other Texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
Pro and con are opposites, that fact is clearly seen. If progress means to move forward, then what does congress mean?
You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team.
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
Don't vote, it only encourages them.
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Love or affection towards an individual or nation, is indicated by good action snot merely be words. The adoration towards nation is expressed by works of welfare equally done by the ruler and theruled. The ruler himself must be engatged, in welfare of th country and also should select officials examining their involvement with the public god. Self-centered people greedy of the power should be kept away
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
Members of Congress should be compelled to wear uniforms like NASCAR drivers, so we could identify their corporate sponsors.
Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom
The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society.
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