Politics Quotes - Page 38

• So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

  Voltaire

  Religious, Fear, Sleep

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• Government is nothing more than the combined force of society, or the united power of the multitude, for the peace, order, safety, good and happiness of the people.

  John Adams

  Government, Order, People

  John Adams (1964). “Diary and Autobiography”

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• Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable.

  John Adams

  Passion, Heart, Ambition

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• It is weakness rather than wickedness which renders men unfit to be trusted with unlimited power.

  John Adams

  Men, Presidential, Weakness

  John Adams (2004). “The Portable John Adams”, p.36, Penguin

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• The law no passion can disturb. 'Tis void of desire and fear, lust and anger. 'Tis mens sine affectu, written reason, retaining some measure of the divine perfection. It does not enjoin that which pleases a weak, frail man, but, without any regard to persons, commands that which is good and punishes evil in all, whether rich or poor, high or low.

  John Adams

  Passion, Men, Law

  John Adams (1856). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.114

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• How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician.

  Henry Miller

  Order, Different, Would Be

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.123, New Directions Publishing

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• The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Time, Political, Revolution

  Speech, San Francisco, Cal., 9 Sept. 1952

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• I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.

  Lee Grant

  Funny, Marriage, Witty

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• Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.

  John Lehman

  Power, Confusion, Political

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• Oh! the wisdom, the foresight and the hindsight and the rightsight and the leftsight, the northsight and the southsight, and the eastsight and the westsight that appeared in that august assembly.

  John Adams

  August, Political, Hindsight

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• I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

  John Adams

  Writing, Political

  John Adams (2003). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.244, Penguin

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• There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.

  Alan Clark

  Senior, Party, Political

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• In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.

  Alan Clark

  Inevitable Death, Political, Awful

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• So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. It is not because the wretched thing is so ugly and silly and useless that I ask you to cast it from you; it is much more because these are but the outward symbols of the poison that lies within them; look through them and see all that has gone to their fashioning, and you will see how vain labour, and sorrow, and disgrace have been their companions from the first-and all this for trifles that no man really needs!

  William Morris

  Art, Lying, Hate

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.150, Cambridge University Press

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• A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard.

  John Webster

  Fashion, Blow, Political

  1623 The Duchess of Malfi, act 3, sc.2.

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• Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles.

  Mark Levin

  Principles, Tyranny, Antidote

  Mark R. Levin (2009). “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Twenty times, in the course of my late reading, have I been on the point of breaking out, 'this would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it!' But in this exclamation, I should have been as fanatical as Bryant or Cleverly. Without religion, this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in public company-I mean hell.

  John Adams

  Reading, Mean, Should Have

  John Adams (1973). “John Adams: a biography in his own words”

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• If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.

  Daniel Webster

  Wisdom, Money, Divorce

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• The politicians say 'we' can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians.

  Steve Forbes

  Funny, Business, Cutting

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• By and large, people are sort of technologically averse in the political space.

  Mike McCurry

  Space, People, Political

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• I think the country has had enough Bushes.

  Barbara Bush

  Country, Thinking, Had Enough

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• When you have an individual that is committed to killing someone else, you can`t expect a restraining order or the police to provide 24-hour protection.

  William Bennett

  Order, Killing Someone, Police

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• There Is No Terrorist Threat In This Country. This Is A Lie. This Is The Biggest Lie We've Been Told.

  Michael Moore

  Country, Lying, Threat

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• It's all part of the same ball of wax, right? The oil companies, Israel, Halliburton.

  Michael Moore

  Oil, Israel, Balls

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• O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.

  Abigail Adams

  Eye, Heart, Wicked

  Abigail Adams (2016). “Abigail Adams: Letters”, p.748, Library of America

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