Politics Quotes - Page 28

• The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion.

  Tacitus

  Passion, Heart, Lust

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• It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Religious, Freedom

  "The Age of Louis XIV". Book by Voltaire, 1751.

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• In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Fear, Wickedness, Politician

  'Table Talk' (1835) 5 October 1830

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• Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

  Eugene McCarthy

  Football, Smart, Stupid

  Quoted in Washington Post, 12 Nov. 1967

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• An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.

  Simon Cameron

  Honesty, Political Will, Definitions

  Attributed in "Chronicles of America Series" by Allen Johnson, Yale University Press, 1918.

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• If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

  H. L. Mencken

  Democracy, Honest, Politician

  H.L. MENCKEN (1958). “PREJUDICES A SELECTION”

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• The State calls its own violence, law; but that of the individual, crime.

  Max Stirner

  Government, Law, Libertarian Party

  "The Great Quotations". Book by George Seldes, p. 664, 1960.

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• In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

  Rab Butler

  Running, Reality, Political

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• Finality is not the language of politics.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Language, Politician

  'Hansard' 28 February 1859

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• The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

  Dean Acheson

  Dull, Requirements, Firsts

  In Observer 21 June 1970

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• A faith is something you die for; a doctrine is something you kill for; there is all the difference in the world.

  Tony Benn

  Differences, Doctrine, World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Children and dogs are as necessary to the welfare of the country as Wall Street and the railroads.

  Harry S. Truman

  Country, Dog, Wall

  Harry S. Truman (1967). “The Quotable Harry S. Truman”, Anderson, S.C. : Droke House, distributed by Grosset & Dunlap

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• In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless before the interests of a deified market, which become the only rule.

  Pope Francis

  Way, Environment, Profit

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.21, BookBaby

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• Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Talking, Unhappy, Tape

  Describing himself, in 'Latter-Day Pamphlets' (1850) 'The Present Time'

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• A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

  William Hazlitt

  Silly, Men, Two

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• A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Imagination, Opponents, Argument

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches: Coningsby, v. 2. Selected speeches”

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• The ones that you're calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while.

  Johnny Cash

  Leader, Calling, Littles

  Song: What Is Truth?

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• The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Enemy, Common

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• Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Freedom, Sarcasm, Political

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  Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

  Lord Acton

  Inspirational, Leadership, Work

  Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 3 April 1887, in Louise Creighton 'Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton' (1904) vol. 1, ch. 13.

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  It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Patriotic, Independent

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• Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

  Aristotle

  Inspiration, Parent, Poverty

  Aristotle, Stephen Everson (1996). “Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens”, p.41, Cambridge University Press

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• The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

  Lord Acton

  Rights, Government, Class

  "Letters of Lord Acton to Mary Gladstone". Book by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1913.

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• It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Government, Libertarian Party, Important

  Calvin Coolidge (2001). “The Quotable Calvin Coolidge: Sensible Words for a New Century”, Images from the Past Incorporated

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• Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few other Texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Stupid, Party, Believe

  Letter to Edgar Newton Eisenhower, teachingamericanhistory.org. November 08, 1954.

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