Politics Quotes - Page 11

After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

America has the best politicians money can buy.

I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.

It's a sin to be rich, but it's a low down shame to be poor.

And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.

We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

Politics is more difficult than physics.

Strugglin' and striving, that's how the dough come.

If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.

A market economy is a tool - a valuable and effective tool - for organizing productive activity. A market society is a way of life in which market values seep into every aspect of human endeavour. It's a place where social relations are made over in the image of the market.

Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.

Have pity on a dinosaur.

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

It doesn't say anywhere in the Constitution this idea of the separation of church and state.

I'm often asked why I travel around the country talking politics. Is it for humanitarian reasons, community spirit, or is it for the money, the limousines or the girls? The answers are: no, no, yes yes yes!

Socialism can only be put into practice only by methods which most socialists disapprove.

The flag still stands for freedom and they can't take that away.

National defense is the sacred duty of the young and all other people.

Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason.

Never judge a country by its politicians.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.

What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.