Politics Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

  John Jay Chapman

  Years, Political, Twenties

  John Jay Chapman (1921). “William Lloyd Garrison”

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  The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Trust, Witty

  Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.1079, RosettaBooks

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• I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Giving Up, Hype, President

  "And I Quote: The Definitive Collection of Quotes, Sayings, and Jokes for the Contemporary Speechmaker". Book by Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans and Andrew Frothingham, January 15, 1992.

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• Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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• Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Political, Serious, Noble

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• Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

  Richard Armour

  Years, Long, Greed

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• When wealth is centralized, the people are dispersed. When wealth is distributed, the people are brought together.

  Confucius

  Inspiring, Karma, People

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• Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Quoted in Albert B. Paine, Mark Twain: A Biography (1912)

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• What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Freedom, Gun

  Letter toWilliam Stephens Smith, 13 Nov. 1787

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• I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

  Winston Churchill

  Opponents, Politician, Felt

  Winston Churchill's speech at the Institute of Journalists Dinner in London (November 17,1906), as quoted in "Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collection of Quotations" edited by Richard Langworth (p. 392), 2008.

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• I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintainence of a free society is a very difficult and complicated thing and it requires a self-denying ordinance of the most extreme kind. It requires a willingness to put up with temporary evils on the basis of the subtle and sophisticated understanding that if you step in to do something about them you not only may make them worse, you will spread your tenticles and get bad results elsewhere.

  Milton Friedman

  Self, People, Evil

  Interview with Richard Heffner on "The Open Mind", December 7, 1975.

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• There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it.

  Mitt Romney

  Believe, Responsibility, Government

  "Romney's Speech From Mother Jones Video". www.nytimes.com. September 19, 2012.

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• If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Change, Errors, Safety

  First Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1801

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• One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not.

  Will Rogers

  Men, Evil, Democracy

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Political Will, Bunk

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.80, Rowman & Littlefield

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• When you straddle a thing it takes a long time to explain it.

  Will Rogers

  Long, Long Time

  Will Rogers (1976). “Convention articles of Will Rogers”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• Party is organized opinion.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Party, Opinion, Organized

  Speech at Oxford, 25 November 1864, in 'The Times' 26 November 1864

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• The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours.

  Robert Walpole

  Gratitude, Favour, Lively

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• Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Principles, Trade, Free Trade

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• Information upon points of practical politics.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Information, Practicals

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.94, Delphi Classics

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• I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method.
  [Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Voting, Ego, Viva

  "On the Laws". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, III. 15, c. 43 B.C..

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• Factions among yourselves; preferring such
  To offices and honors, as ne'er read
  The elements of saving policy;
  But deeply skilled in all the principles
  That usher to destruction.

  Philip Massinger

  Office, Honor, Principles

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• I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.

  Samuel Johnson

  Devil, Firsts, Said

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 326 (28 April 1778)

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• Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

  George Orwell

  Witty, Peace, Truth

  "Politics and the English Language" (1946)

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