Political Quotes - Page 5

• The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

  Hillary Clinton

  Inspirational, Art, Optimistic

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2004). “Living History”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• A friend in power is a friend lost.

  Henry Adams

  Love, Friendship, Best Friend

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 7 (1907)

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• Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Science, Fiction, Stories

  "The Making of Kubrick's 2001". Book by Jerome Agel, 1970.

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• Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

  Aesop

  Peace, War, Tyrants

  Ann McGovern, Aesop, Arthur Geisert (1990). “Aesop's Fables”, p.54, Scholastic Inc.

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• Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Military, War, Writing

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• Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

  Winston Churchill

  Drinking, Wine, Knowing

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• Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

  Jefferson Davis

  Majority Rule, Events, Politics

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• The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

  Hannah Arendt

  Memorable, Political Revolution, Revolutionary Leaders

  New Yorker 12 Sept. 1970, p. 88

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• Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Inspiring, Death

  The Malakand Field Force ch. 10 (1898)

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• Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

  Aristotle

  Happiness, Happy, Mean

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3126, Delphi Classics

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• If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Silence, Presidential, Say Anything

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

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• The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Democracies Have, Historical, Democracy

  "Lothair". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, Ch. 17, 1870.

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• What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Failure, Politics, Anticipate

  "Henrietta Temple, by the Author of 'Vivian Grey'".

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• It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.

  George W. Bush

  Inspirational, Money, Numbers

  "The misunderestimated president" by John O'Farrell, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2001.

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• If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

  Jimmy Carter

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  1978 Address to the Future Farmers of America, Kansas City, 9 Nov.

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• Don't worry if they're Democrats or Republicans. Give them service and they'll become Democrats.

  Richard J. Daley

  Giving, Worry, Politics

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• You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

  Mario Cuomo

  Poetry, Campaigns, Politics

  The New Republic, April 04, 1985.

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• The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Military, Russia, Secret

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• A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Careers, Two

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.836, Delphi Classics

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• It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

  Winston Churchill

  Strength, Success, Badass

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

  Jimmy Carter

  Memorable, Government, People

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• To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying.

  Richard Henry Lee

  Fear, Government, Dying

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

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• All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.

  John Stossel

  Rights, Erosion, Government

  FaceBook post by John Stossel from Mar 29, 2013

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  The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Freedom, Independent

  Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “The Churchill Wit”

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• You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Courage, Intelligent, Quality

  "Life of Robert, Marquis of Salisbury, Vol. 2: 1868-1880". Book by Gwendolen Cecil, 1921.

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