Politics Quotes - Page 22

• If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Funny, Wise

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

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• Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Hypocrisy, Evil

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• Most Americans have never seen the ignorance, degradation, hunger, sickness, and futility in which many other Americans live...They won't become involved in economic or political change until something brings the seriousness of the situation home to them.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Home, Ignorance, Political

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• If I rescued a child from drowning, the press would no doubt headline the story: 'Benn grabs child

  Tony Benn

  Funny, Children, Humor

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• Liberal comes from the Latin liberalis, which means pertaining to a free man. In politics, to be liberal is to want to extend democracy through change and reform. One can see why that word had to be erased from our political lexicon.

  Gore Vidal

  Latin, Mean, Men

  Gore Vidal (1992). “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire”

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• Ten thousand times has the labor movement stumbled and bruised itself. We have been enjoined by the courts, assaulted by thugs, charged by the militia, traduced by the press, frowned upon in public opinion, and deceived by politicians. 'But notwithstanding all this and all these, labor is today the most vital and potential power this planet has ever known, and its historic mission is as certain of ultimate realization as is the setting of the sun.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Thug, Labour Movement, Political

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• You have got to unite in the same labor union and in the same political party and strike and vote together, and the hour you do that, the world is yours.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Party, Political, Together

  "Debs: His Life, Writings and Speeches". Book edited by Stephen Marion Reynolds and Bruce Rogers, 1908.

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• Sound doctrine is sound politics.

  Morton Blackwell

  Sound Doctrine, Sound, Doctrine

  "The Law of Politics". Book by Graeme Orr, 2010.

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• He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

  Oscar Wilde

  Thinking, Important, Society

  Oscar Wilde (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.26, OUP Oxford

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• Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

  Gore Vidal

  People, Political, Fifty

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• Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.

  James Madison

  Government, Justice, Voting

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.241

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• I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.

  Tony Benn

  Want, More Time

  "Benn retires to spend more time with his politics". "The Independent" Newspaper, June 28, 1999.

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• Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.

  William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

  Government, Political, Mind

  William Pitt (1st earl of Chatham.) (1839). “Correspondence, ed. by [W.S. Taylor and J.H. Pringle] the executors of his son John, earl of Chatham”, p.387

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• He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

  Henry Adams

  Cheer, Purpose, Certain

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.445, BookRix

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• We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent, or hostile, and, wherever opportunity affords, to secure the election of intelligent, honest, earnest trade unionists, with clear, unblemished, paid-up union cards in their possession.

  Samuel Gompers

  Party, Intelligent, Opportunity

  Samuel Gompers, John McBride, William Green (1906). “The American Federationist”

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• There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Government, Law, Political

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• We have a complete void of progressive politics in this country right now. The will of the people goes ignored and unrealized. I'm searching for the people that can enter the political system, a strong third party. We need to consolidate.

  Ani DiFranco

  Country, Strong, Party

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• I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Decision, Nerd, Important

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• The definition of terrorism is killing civilians with the intent of changing their political affiliation.

  Caleb Carr

  Political, Definitions, Terrorism

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• The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Time, Godly

  Thomas Jefferson (1774). “A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)”, p.31, Academic Resources Corp

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• Fascism is capitalism in decay.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Political, Decay, Revolutionary

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  Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Business, Tolerance, Democracy

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• Each generation is responsible to make the future of the next.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Generations, Next, Responsible

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• The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

  Plato

  Plato, Freedom, Men

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  The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

  Theodore White

  Freedom, Nerd, Democracy

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