Political Quotes - Page 48

The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed.

A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.

An underpaid man is a customer reduced in purchasing power. He cannot buy. Business depression is caused by weakened purchasing power. Purchasing power is weakened by uncertainty or insufficiency of income. The cure of business depression is through purchasing power, and the source of purchasing power is wages.

Factual truth is always related to other people: it concerns events and circumstances in which many are involved; it is established by witnesses and depends upon testimony; it exists only to the extent that it is spoken about, even if it occurs in the domain of privacy. It is political by nature.

Charity is today a 'political charity.'. . . it means the transformation of a society structured to benefit a few who appropriate to themselves the value of the work of others. This transformation ought to be directed toward a radical change in the foundation of society, that is, the private ownership of the means of production.

It is the first time the burglar has been appointed as caretaker.

This administration is doing everything we can to end the stalemate in an efficient way. We're making the right decisions to bring the solution to an end.

Political economy is the science of free society. Its theory and its history alike establish this position. Its fundamental maxims, Laissez-faire and 'Pas trop gouverner' are at war with all kinds of slavery, for they in fact assert that individuals and peoples prosper most when governed least.

It was truly an astonishing grassroots explosion, ... The objective was to get a nationwide demonstration of concern for the environment so large that it would shake the political establishment out of its lethargy.

The nation will continue to be a central pole of identification, even if more and more nations come to share common economic and political forms of organization.

As the saffron tints and crimson flushes of morn herald the coming day, so the social and political advancement which woman has already gained bears the promise of the rising of the full-orbed sun of emancipation. The result will be not to make home less happy, but society more holy.

No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.

A constitutional amendment for congressional term limits could never achieve the blessing of Congress; it could be initiated only by the states.

Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

History teaches us that the capacity of things to get worse is limitless. Roman history suggests that the short, happy life of the American republic may be coming to its end... the US will probably maintain a facade of constitutional government and drift along until financial bankruptcy overtakes it.

It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.

Never is liberty more easily lost than when we think we are defending it.

Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation?

What Washington needs is adult supervision.

Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.

The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as an age in which human society dared to think of the welfare of the whole human race as a practical objective.

If I do something that depresses, it's not because I'm depressed, but because political life and history is depressing.

Sarah Palin has decided not to run for President and go straight to the quitting part.

The world will not know liberty until all that is religious and political is transformed into something simple and human and made susceptible to criticism and denial.