Politics Quotes - Page 6

• People often say, with pride, 'I'm not interested in politics.' They might as well say, 'I'm not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future or any future.' ... If we mean to keep any control over our world and lives, we must be interested in politics.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Jobs, Mean, Pride

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• A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Leadership

  An address at the Episcopal National Cathedral, Washington D.C, March 31, 1968.

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• I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... an Arctic region covered with ice.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Country, Peace

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• Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

  Bertrand Russell

  Political, Next, Acquisition

  'Sceptical Essays' (1928) 'Recrudescence of Puritanism'

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• A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

  George Will

  Thinking, Political, Politician

  "A Ford, not a Lincoln". Book by Richard Reeves, 1975.

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• The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Freedom, Power, Essence

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.305, Best Books on

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• The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Art, Society, Politician

  Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1858). “Curiosities of Literature”, p.438

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• I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.

  Mark Twain

  Witty, Men, Shining

  "Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations".

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• Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

  Edmund Burke

  Long, People, Political

  'Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol' (1777) p. 71

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• The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Success, Thinking, Voice

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.36, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

  Jonathan Swift

  Party, Political, Gains

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellanies, by Mr. Pope, Dr. Arbuthnot, Mr. Gay, &c. Prose miscellanies by Swift and Sheridan”, p.255

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• Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Freedom, Rights

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.219, Best Books on

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• The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  War, Moving, Gun

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• Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be so much more powerful than he could ever be.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Success, Powerful, Political

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

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• Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Stupid, Skills, Political

  "Chambers Dictionary of Political Biography". Book by John Ransley, p. 345, 1991.

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  Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Funny, Witty, Political

  Familiar Studies of Men and Books "Yoshida-Torajiro" (1882)

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• To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

  Mark Twain

  Graduation, Party, Power

  Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader’s Edition”, p.169, Univ of California Press

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• If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Office, Vacancy, Matter

  Letter to Elias Shipman and others, 12 July 1801.

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• Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

  C. S. Lewis

  Tyrants, Libertarian Party, Democracies Have

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.324, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

  Aesop

  Witty, Government, Political Will

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

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• Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

  Thomas Mann

  Evil, Tolerance, Crime

  Thomas Mann (1995). “The magic mountain: a novel”, Random House, Inc.

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• The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Leadership, Power, People

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• Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

  Henry Adams

  Witty, Science, Political Will

  The Education of Henry Adams ch. 24 (1907)

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• The secret of getting things done is to act!

  Dante Alighieri

  Secret Love, Done, Getting High

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• Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Evil, Political, Wish

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 56

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