Political Quotes - Page 160

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

The Convention probably foresaw what it has been a principal aim of these papers to inculcate that the danger which most threatens our political welfare is, that the state governments will finally sap the foundations of the Union.

The principal purposes to be answered by union are these the common defense of the members; the preservation of the public peace as well against internal convulsions as external attacks; the regulation of commerce with other nations and between the States; the superintendence of our intercourse, political and commercial, with foreign countries.

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

I'm not preaching about things you should do, I'm not political or anything. I'm probably not the best role model.

From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase.

Political leaders or governments owe their position partly to force and partly to popular election. They cannot be regarded as representative of best elements, morally or intellectually, in their respective nations.

The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion.

I will continue to help the political causes I believe in in any way I can.

A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones.

Your political views really denote your spiritual views.

Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.

He collected audiences around him, and flourished and exhibited and harangued.

The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political

There's been real hostility toward political poetry in the U.S., hostility or, at best, incomprehension. I'm speaking of those who have institutional power over what gets published, over grants andprizes and reviewing. Most of them, though not all, arewhite and male. But even as American society is unravelling, becoming more violent and punitive, wonderful political poetshave been emerging.

Why is it that when political ammunition runs low, inevitably the rusty artillery of abuse is always wheeled into action?

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.

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

The sneaking arts of underling tradesmen are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire; for it is the most underling tradesmen only who make it a rule to employ chiefly their own customers. A great trader purchases his good always where they are cheapest and best, without regard to any little interest of this kind.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Public opinion in this country is everything.

We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.

Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation.

I keep wondering if everybody on the political left had someone who they were separated at birth from.

I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.