Political Quotes - Page 31

• Hell hath no fury like a frustrated fundamentalist whose God condemned him to "hell" for having "impure thoughts."

  Michael R. Burch

  Hell Hath No Fury, Frustrated, Impure Thoughts

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• I lived as best I could, and then I died. Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.

  Michael R. Burch

  Steps, Graves, Be Careful

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• The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool.

  William Blake

  Wise, Men, Errors

  'MS Note-Book' p. 42

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• This Humanist whom no beliefs constrained Grew so broad-minded he was scatter-brained.

  J. V. Cunningham

  Belief, Broads, Grew

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• The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.

  Seneca the Younger

  Money, Lying, Wealth

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• I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Bears, Found

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.77, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• There are simple answers to the nation's problems, but not easy ones.

  Ronald Reagan

  Simple, Answers, Problem

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• The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Differences, Want

  Ronald Reagan, Bill Adler (1981). “The Reagan wit”, Jameson Books

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• Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Vices, Made, Nurture

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• No man is a hero to his own valet.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Hero, Men, Valet

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• We need more Democrats in the Senate -Like Custer needed more arrows.

  Ronald Reagan

  Arrows, Needs, Democrat

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• Public Interest is a term used by every politician to support his ideas.

  W. M. Kiplinger

  Ideas, Support, Politician

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• It is not the business of politicians to please everyone.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Politician, Please

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• Modern man worships at the temple of science, but science tells him only what is possible, not what is right.

  Milton S. Eisenhower

  Men, Temples, Worship

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• The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Believe, Loss, Faith In God

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• What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Communism

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• The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.

  George Orwell

  Jobs, Men, White

  The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) ch. 11

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• Why is the press America's showcase for freedom? Because just about everything else has been regulated.

  Cullen Hightower

  America, Showcase, Has Beens

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• This generation, raised on "Eyewitness News," conditioned by the instant replay, and spared the illumination that comes from tedious historical study, tends to be even more ahistorical than most.

  Harry S. Truman

  Illumination, Historical, Instant Replay

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• Saying the Washington Post is just a newspaper is like saying Rasputin was just a country priest.

  Pat Buchanan

  Country, Rasputin, Newspapers

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• Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

  Boies Penrose

  Office, Patriotism, Lasts

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• Public opinion is the last refuge of a politician without any opinion.

  Mark Bonham Carter, Baron Bonham-Carter

  Public Opinion, Lasts, Politician

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• If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.

  Winston Churchill

  Past, Trying, Judgment

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• There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.

  Winston Churchill

  Numbers, Saving, Reduction

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• Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor.

  Peter Drucker

  Thinking, Needs, Poor

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