Politics Quotes - Page 10

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles.

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

Voting is a civic sacrament.

The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen's behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government's behavior.

No one can be, at the same time, a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist.

Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous.

Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles.

Perfectionism, no less than isolationism or imperialism or power politics, may obstruct the paths to international peace. Let us not forget that the retreat to isolationism a quarter of a century ago was started not by a direct attack against international cooperation but against the alleged imperfections of the peace.

Why does Mosley always speak as though he were a feudal landlord abusing tenants who are in arrears with their rent ?

Victory will never be found by taking the path of least resistance.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

The liquidation of colonialism is a trend of the times which no force can hold back.

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.

Constitution is for the people, people are not for the constitution. Change it for the betterment of the common man.

Politicians don't lie, they misspeak. And they don't steal, they mispocket.

Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.

The moral consequences of totalitarian propaganda...are destructive of all morals because they undermind one of the foundations of all morals: the sense of and respect for truth.

Live like the Kennedy's, above the law.

Liberals can't just come out and say, they want to take more of our money, kill babies, and discriminate on the basis of race.

Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.