Political Quotes - Page 10

He was the only man I ever knew who could get money from the rich and votes from the poor with the promise to protect them from each other.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.

Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

In bygone days, commanders were taught that when in doubt, they should march their troops towards the sound of gunfire. I intend to march my troops towards the sound of gunfire.

Independence is never given to a people, it has to be earned; and, once earned, must be defended.

The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it.

I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.

It has become more and more obvious that there is one political party in America, and that is The Business Party.

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

Among the popular and representative systems of government I do not approve of the federal system: it is too perfect; and it requires virtues and political talents much superior to our own.

The United States should get rid of its militias.

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.

Economy and ideology. The claim (presented as an essential postulate of historical materialism) that every fluctuation of politics and ideology can be presented and expounded as an immediate expression of the structure, must be contested in theory as primitive infantilism, and combated in practice with the authentic testimony of Marx, the author of concrete political and historical works.

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.

And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon me, American presidents reward virtue? Do they choose their appointees on the basis of the virtue of the people appointed or on the basis of their political clout?

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.

A State divided into a small number of rich and a large number of poor will always develop a government manipulated by the rich to protect the amenities represented by their property.