Politics Quotes - Page 7

• You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Life, Courage, Power

  The First Circle ch. 17 (1968)

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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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• Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Political, Gentleman

  Quoted in his NewYork Herald Tribune obituary, 24 Nov 1963.

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• It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hope, People, Politician

  Thomas Carlyle, Brendan King (1993). “The Sayings of Thomas Carlyle”, p.36, Lulu.com

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• Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

  Edmund Burke

  Sacrifice, Government, Political

  Speech to electors of Bristol, 3 Nov. 1774

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• Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Peace

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.454, Courier Corporation

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• Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Presidential, Political, Four

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• It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.

  Paul Wellstone

  Giving, Full Potential, Excess

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• All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

  John Arbuthnot

  Lying, Party, Political

  "Life of Emerson" by Richard Garnett, ch. 7, 1988.

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• Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Time, Citizens, Libertarian

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• There’s class warfare, all right, but it’s my class, the rich class, that’s making war, and we’re winning.

  Warren Buffett

  War, Winning, Class

  "In Class Warfare, Guess Which Class Is Winning". New York Times Magazine, www.nytimes.com. November 26, 2006.

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• Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Justice, Demand

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.200, Beacon Press

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  America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.

  Walter Cronkite

  Health, Caring, America

  "Confucius (and Mark Twain) Say: Boycott 'Health Care' and 'Health Care System' Unless That’s What We Mean" by John Weeks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2016.

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• Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

  A. J. Liebling

  Funny, Media Control, Civil Rights

  New Yorker, 14 May 1960

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• In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Academic Life, Facts, States

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  Our true nationality is mankind.

  H. G. Wells

  Life, Racism, People

  H. G. Wells, Walter Warren Wagar (2004). “The Outline of History: The Roman Empire to the Great War”, p.644, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Peace, Exercise

  Letter to William Charles Jarvis, 28 Sept. 1820

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• The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Love, Marriage, Couple

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• Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Space, Worry

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• Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.

  Ronald Reagan

  Patriotic, Political, Enemy

  "War and Conflict Quotations" eds. Michael & Jean Thomsett, McFarland, (p. 105), 1997.

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• Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Trust, Kings, Angel

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• We have plenty of Confidence in this country, but we are a little short of good men to place our Confidence in.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Men, Greed

  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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• Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Evil, Diversity, Patriotism

  Courtroom statement, Ahmadabad, India, 23 Mar. 1922

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• After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

  George C. Wallace

  Political, Mountain, Lasts

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• If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.

  Kin Hubbard

  Hate, Libertarian, Public Speaking

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