Politics Quotes - Page 10

• I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.

  John Adams

  Children, Fate, Giving

  John Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.616

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• The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

  John Adams

  Government, Essence, Political

  John Adams (2001). “The Political Writings of John Adams”, p.361, Regnery Publishing

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• While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

  John Adams

  Government, Years, Political

  "An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790-1840". Book by Robert A. Gross and Mary Kelley, 2010.

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• To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Spiritual, Taken, Rely Upon

  "The Revolution Betrayed" by Lenin Trotsky, (p. 236), 2006.

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• It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Majority, Might, Constitution

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• Of all kinds of credulity, the most obstinate is that of party-spirit; of men, who, being numbered, they know not why, in any party, resign the use of their own eyes and ears, and resolve to believe nothing that does not favor those whom they profess to follow.

  Samuel Johnson

  Party, Believe, Eye

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• No matter how their leaders may have tried to skimp on money, no one, not even the politicians, who talked themselves red, white, and blue in the face, skimped on effort.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Blue, Talking, White

  "European spring".

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• This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Freedom, 4th Of July

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1861

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• Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Political, Lovely, President

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• Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Rights, Done, Way

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• I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Witty, Phoenix

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

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• Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Presidential, Political, Reform

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• Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

  John F. Kennedy

  Responsibility, White, House

  John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

  Fidel Castro

  Running, People, Nerd

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Mean, Continuation

  'Vom Kriege' (1832-4) bk. 8, ch. 6, sect. B, commonly rendered in the form 'War is the continuation of politics by other means'.

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• Television is democracy at its ugliest.

  Paddy Chayefsky

  Political, Style, Democracy

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

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• Government is too big and important to be left to the politicians.

  Chester Bowles

  Government, Important, Politician

  Forbes Magazine, vol. 68, 1951.

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• We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Strength, Beach

  Hansard 4 June 1940, col. 796

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• At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

  Harold MacMillan

  Home, Politician, Feels

  1958 Speech during the first visit of a British Prime Minister to Australia,17 Feb.

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• Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

  Winston Churchill

  Business, Insperational, Games

  Winston Churchill (1973). “Liberalism and the Social Problem”, p.249, Library of Alexandria

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• I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Witty, Freedom

  Quoted in Wall Street Journal, 26 May 1989

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• You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.

  Malcolm X

  Hope, Greed, Political

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• In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

  Mary McCarthy

  Military, Retreat, Politician

  "Vietnam". Book by Mary McCarthy, 1967.

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• Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Witty, Laughter

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• Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

  Grover Cleveland

  Women, Long Ago, Civilization

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