Politics Quotes - Page 19

• Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

  Oscar Ameringer

  Life, Witty, Art

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• In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

  H. G. Wells

  Play, Political, Cards

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• In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

  Aristotle

  Power, Democracies Have, Democracy

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• As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

  Harold MacMillan

  Ideas, Sound, Usual

  Speech to London Conservatives, 7 Mar. 1961, in The Times 8 Mar. 1961

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• Are you better off today than you were four years ago?

  Ronald Reagan

  Years, Four, Better Off

  "Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches".

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• Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

  Mao Zedong

  War, Chinese Revolution, Political Will

  Lecture, 1938, in Selected Works (1965) vol. 2, p. 153

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• Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

  Jimmy Wales

  Fighting, People, Assuming

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• Politics is more difficult than physics.

  Albert Einstein

  Wise, Philosophy, Physics

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 22 Apr. 1955

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• [on the Republican party] A party with a narrow vision, a party that is afraid of the future.

  Jimmy Carter

  Men, Political, Vision

  "Carter Attacks Reagan Tax Cut, Seeks Debates". The Washington Post, July 18, 1980.

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• Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence: nor is the law less stable than the fact.

  John Adams

  Passion, Patriotic, Law

  John Adams (1971). “The Works [of] John Adams, Second President of the United States: Life of John Adams”

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• They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.

  Winston Churchill

  Government, Done, Difficulty

  Sir Winston Churchill (1939). “Step by Step: 1936-1939”, Ayer Company Pub

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• And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one.

  Will Rogers

  Vote, Good Humor, Including

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

  Herbert Hoover

  Children, Office, Nerd

  "On Growing Up: Letters to American Boys and Girls". Book by Herbert Hoover, 1962.

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• Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Party, Tools, Done

  c.1874 Letter.

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• We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

  Winston Churchill

  Freedom, Humor, Men

  Winston S. Churchill “Young Statesman”

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• A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

  Leo Rosten

  Political, Definitions, Conservative

  "The Modern Handbook of Humor". Book by Ralph Woods, 1967.

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• Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Freedom, Men, People

  Nods and Becks (1944) SeeW. C. Fields 21

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• What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Character, Men, Temptation

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• It is absurd to entrust the defense of a country to people who own nothing in it.

  Diodorus Siculus

  Wisdom, Country, People

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• The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care of his health or his estate, which would more nearly relate to the state. Will the magistrate make a law that he not be poor or sick? Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. God himself will not save men against their wills.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Law, Sick

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1771 - 1779, the Summary View, and the Declaration of Independence”, p.263, Cosimo, Inc.

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• And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

  Jonathan Swift

  Country, Agriculture, Race

  Gulliver's Travels "A Voyage to Brobdingnag" ch. 7 (1726)

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• All I know is that I am not a Marxist.

  Karl Marx

  Real, Government, Political

  Attributed in a letter from Engels to C. Schmidt, 5 August 1890

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• In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Inspiring, Truth

  Autobiography ch. 78 (1959)

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• The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.

  H. L. Mencken

  Time, Freedom, Fighting

  "Shut Down Chick-fil-A Properly" by James Peron, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 25, 2012.

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• I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal disease. Never speed up to hit a pedestrian or, or course, stop to kick a pedestrian who has already been hit. From which it followed, of course, that one would never ever -- on pain of deletion from dozens of Christmas card lists across the country -- vote Republican.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Country, Pain, Lying

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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