Politics Quotes - Page 5

• A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Death, 4th Of July, Bad Ass

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

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• Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

  Will Rogers

  Men, People, Political

  Will Rogers (1982). “More letters of a self-made diplomat”, Oklahoma State University Press

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  I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Evil, Interesting

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• The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Past, Essence, Adherence

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• He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised.

  Samuel Johnson

  Past, Political, Reign

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1820). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: A New Edition in Twelve Volumes, to which is Prefixed, an Essay on His Life and Genius, by Arthur Murphy, Esq. Containing Rambler vol. 1-3”, p.224

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• Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Opportunity, Men, Race

  Civil Rights Symposium Address, delivered 12 December 1972. Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, TX

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• Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Wisdom, People

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.65, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

  Milton Friedman

  Mistake, Judging, April

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

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• I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Cheer, Mean, Thinking

  "Thatcher Put the "Great" Back in Great Britain" by Jack Kelly, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 14, 2013.

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• No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Our Theatres In The Nineties". Book by George Bernard Shaw, 1932.

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  Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Political Will, Greed, Nerd

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.271, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married.

  Joseph Howe

  Married, Maidens

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• Democracy is disruptive... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.

  Naomi Wolf

  Democracy, Disruption, Democratic

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• I would love to see Mr. (Henry) Ford in there, really. I don't know who started the idea that a President must be a Politician instead of a Business man. A Politician can't run any other kind of business. So there is no reason why he can run the U.S. That's the biggest single business in the World.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Men, Ideas

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• We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?

  Will Rogers

  Matter, Congress, Jokes

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• Funny thing about being a U.S. senator, the only thing the law says you have to be is 30 years old. Not another single requirement. They just figure that a man that old got nobody to blame but himself if he gets caught in there.

  Will Rogers

  Men, Years, Law

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• It's getting so if a man wants to stand well socially, he can't afford to be seen with either the Democrats or the Republicans.

  Will Rogers

  Men, Want, Republican

  Will Rogers, Steven K. Gragert, Judy G. Buckholz, Oklahoma State University, Will Rogers Memorial Commission (1974). “The Writings of Will Rogers”

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• Politics is the best show in America. I love animals and I love politicians, and I like to watch both of 'em at play, either back home in their native state, or after they've been captured and sent to a zoo, or to Washington.

  Will Rogers

  Zoos, Home, Animal

  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.150, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I know things are going to get better in spite of both sides. Then when things do get better, then you'll hear the yell that will go up. The Democrats will swear that recovery was due to them. Now the Republicans, they'll say it was due to them. Nobody wanted to claim the credit for the country blowing up, but wait until it starts picking up and they'll both be on it then. See?

  Will Rogers

  Country, Recovery, Waiting

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• I don't think either one of them knows what it's all about, to be honest with you. Both sides are doing nothing but just looking towards the next election.

  Will Rogers

  Thinking, Sides, Doing Nothing

  Will Rogers (1983). “Radio broadcasts of Will Rogers”, Oklahoma State Univ Pr

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• You know the more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best. My only solution would be to keep em both out one term and hire my good friend Henry Ford to run the whole thing, and give him a commission on what he saves us.

  Will Rogers

  Running, Party, Good Friend

  'The Illiterate Digest' (1924) 'Breaking into the Writing Game'

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• But it is at home and not in public that one should wash ones dirty linen.
  [Fr., Car c'est en famille, ce n'est pas en public, qu'un lave son linge sale.]

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Dirty, Home, Son

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• The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Party, People

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.80, Modern Library

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• If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

  Barack Obama

  Country, People, Political

  University of Michigan Commencement Speech, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2010.

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