Political Quotes - Page 7

• It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

  George H. W. Bush

  Funny, Stupid, Patriotic

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• A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.

  Dean Acheson

  Funny, Accountability, Politics

  Quoted in Wall Street Journal, 8 Sept. 1977

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• Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

  Henry Adams

  Power, President, Poison

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• The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.

  Henry Adams

  Upset, Progress, President

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 17 (1907)

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• Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

  Samuel Adams

  Feelings, Liberty, Politics

  In J. N. Rakove 'The Beginnings of National Politics' (1979) p. 92

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• No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

  Joseph Addison

  Politics, Oppression, Lasting Love

  Joseph Addison (1794). “Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality”, p.286

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• If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs.

  Aesop

  Men, Purpose, Use

  Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.33, Pelekanos Books

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• Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Memories, Freedom, Liberty

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• There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Party, Politics, Meanness

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.159, Delphi Classics

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• Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

  Charles de Gaulle

  Trust, Witty, Freedom

  In Ernest Mignon Les Mots du G‚n‚ral (1962) p. 67

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• If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.

  Tony Benn

  Money, People, Politics

  "Sicko". Documentary, Drama, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.

  Dean Acheson

  Military, Self, Tanks

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

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• Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.

  George H. W. Bush

  Running, Romance, Politics

  "Like Father, Like Son" by Brooke Shelby Biggs, www.motherjones.com. June 1, 2001.

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• When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Funny, Mean, Men

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• To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Military, Law, Prussia

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• An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms”, p.107, Courier Corporation

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• Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Peace, Freedom

  Address on first anniversary of Alliance for Progress, 13 Mar. 1962

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• Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

  Milton Friedman

  Philosophy, Government, People

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• The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great-grandfather, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities of the North as willing tools and the South as a conquered territory and never allow them to rule over us, and never allow them to have control over their future.

  Ahmadu Bello

  Power, Grandfather, Tools

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• It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

  Aesop

  Courage, Distance, Army

  Joseph Jacobs, Aesop (2002). “The Fables of Aesop”, p.41, Courier Corporation

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• A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

  Robert Frost

  Men, Tolerance, Icy

  "The Geography of the Imagination". Book by Guy Davenport, 1981.

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• Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.

  David Brinkley

  Believe, Cities, People

  "Great Political Wit: laughing (almost) all the way to the White House". p. 89. Book by Bob Dole, 2000.

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• Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.

  F. Lee Bailey

  Government, Usa, Rights

  "Newsweek" Magazine, April 17, 1967.

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• If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.

  Jefferson Davis

  Tombstone, Organization, Civil War

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• A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Government, Hypocrisy, Politics

  'Hansard' 17 March 1845, col. 1028. Bagehot, quoting Disraeli in 'The English Constitution' (1867) 'The House of Lords', elaborated on the theme with the words 'so much did the ideas of its "head" differ from the sensations of its "tail".'

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