Politics Quotes - Page 15

My walk had purpose, my steps were quick and light, and I held firmly to what I felt was right.

Politics isn't only about government. Politics is about the people.

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Pledge allegiance to the flag that neglects us.

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

We hear war called murder. It is not; it is suicide.

The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

The time will come when human intelligence will rise to the mastery of property.

Our nation is well equipped to make the transition. We have an abundance of natural resources like wind, natural gas, solar and geothermal.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

It's easier to criticize somebody else, than to see yourself.

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.

Socialism is a dead horse.

Does politics have to be injected into everything?

We are soldiers of the cross, we've been found to reach the lost.