Political Quotes - Page 45

The Founders were not democrats and socialists..., but conservatives who had a healthy distrust of political passions and who devised a complex system designed to frustrate the schemes of social redeemers and others convinced of their own invincible virtue.

We don't want to go back to tomorrow, we want to move forward.

Men who teach only men are called scholars. Women who teach only women are called political agitators.

A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

Till the enemy's weakness is known , he should be kept on friendly terms.

There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.

We will not allow to become a political issue in this country the question of Asianisation.

When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us

I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I wrote it as a piece of chamber music.

Over the years I've never written or made movies about political themes 'cause while they do have current critical importance, in the large, large scheme of things, only the big questions matter and the answers to those big questions are very, very depressing.

A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.

The right to discuss freely and openly, by speech, by the pen, by the press, all political questions, and to examine the animadvert upon all political institutions is a right so clear and certain, so interwoven with our other liberties, so necessary, in fact, to their existence, that without it we must fall into despotism and anarchy.

When Blair was elected leader of the Labour Party, he said, "New Labour is a new political party" - that was the phrase he used, and I'm so glad he said it because he set up his own party and I'm not a member of it.

The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.

Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

We believe it is the duty of the vanguard political movement which brings change to educate people's outlook

There is no such thing as gun control. There is only centralizing gun ownership into the hands of a small, political elite and their minions.

Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.

I didn't say I wouldn't go into ghetto areas. I've been in many of them and to some extent I would say this; if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but gentlemen, these men are not in the race.

If you're explaining, you're losing.

The very purpose of a bill of rights is to withdraw certain subjects from...political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities.

Now they're getting so politically correct you can't even stick your tongue out at somebody.