Political Quotes - Page 25

• Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  4th Of July, Responsibility, Past

  John F. Kennedy's Speech at Loyola College Alumni Banquet, Baltimore, Maryland, www.jfklibrary.org. February 18, 1958.

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• Fire, even if put on head, burns only.

  Chanakya

  Fire, Ifs

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• One who is to be pardoned should not be harassed.

  Chanakya

  Should

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• The fire of the forest burns trees to ashes. Even expensive sandalwood tree which is endowed with qualities of cooling and fragrance, cannot escape from burning. In the same way wicked cause harm to their benefactors also.

  Chanakya

  Fire, Tree, Quality

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• A low-minded person should not be given good advice.

  Chanakya

  Advice, Lows, Should

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• It is narual for enemy to attack on the weaker side of the adversary.

  Chanakya

  Enemy, Sides, Adversaries

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• They (low-minded) ones should never be trusted.

  Chanakya

  Lows, Should, Trusted

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• Evil person causes harm even if treated will.

  Chanakya

  Evil, Causes, Harm

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• If one limb of the body is defected or inflicted with, disease, the whole feels tha pai. Some way if any department, minister or official of the state is faulty, the whole country is effected. An administrator should try hard to curb it.

  Chanakya

  Country, Trying, Body

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• One's weakness should not ever be revealed.

  Chanakya

  Weakness, Should

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• A ruler wishing to win shold not trust a cpterued enemy even if he may be extending had to be friend. Because deep rooted enemity, however, concealed, will ruerely come to light.

  Chanakya

  Winning, Light, Enemy

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• The demerits of our own people bringh infamiy. Their disgrace is our own disgrace. That is why infamy os such people relly hurts . It is desifrable that the ruler or the administrator may work in a way that such disgraceful conduct may not occur.

  Chanakya

  Hurt, People, May

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• Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Grandmother, Doubt, Politics

  Woodrow Wilson (1986). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

  Henry Adams

  Games, Politics

  Henry Adams, Jacob Clavner Levenson, Massachusetts Historical Society (1982). “The Letters of Henry Adams: 1868-1885”

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• An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service.

  Harry S. Truman

  Trust, Money, Presidential

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• A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Character, Gun, Voting

  Theodore Roosevelt (2013). “Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• Till the enemy's weakness is known , he should be kept on friendly terms.

  Chanakya

  Enemy, Friendly, Weakness

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• Midas, they say, possessed the art of old; Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease - Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please.

  John Wolcot

  Art, Gold, Ease

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• I doubt very much if a man whose main literary interests were in works by Mr. Zane Grey, admirable as they may be, is particularly equipped to be the chief executive of this country, particularly where Indian Affairs are concerned.

  Dean Acheson

  Country, Men, Doubt

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• This sutura gives example about the purpose of relationship. A son of enemy who wants to uproot his own father, should be treated as friend and shold be protected. This may be called opportunism but is and should be necessary part of polity and statesmanship. Moreover, if a father is not aan upright man to have friendship with his sone can be a meritorious peson. So it is better to protecdt him.

  Chanakya

  Father, Son, Men

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• Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

  Richard Armour

  Years, Long, Greed

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• An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

  Winston Churchill

  Nature, Educational, Humorous

  Reader's Digest, December 1954.

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• Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government. Like other values it has its counterfeits. So much emphasis has been placed upon the false that the significance of the true has been obscured and politics has come to convey the meaning of crafty and cunning selfishness, instead of candid and sincere service.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Art, Mean, Government

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

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• A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.

  Andre Malraux

  Believe, Leader, Asking

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• The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't read anything

  Thomas Nixon Carver

  Literature, Trouble, Radical

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