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Politics Quotes - Page 2

Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.

Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1818). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, by Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Madison, and Mr. Jay: with an Appendix, Containing the Letters of Pacificus and Helvidius, on the Proclamation of Neutrality of 1793; Also, the Original Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution of the United States, with the Amendments Made Thereto”, p.60

The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.

"Surfing the Tao : A Revolution of Free Will". Book by Angela V. Michaels, 2004.

We have a theoretical concept of the Revolution which is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

"With Fidel: A portrait of Castro and Cuba". Book by Frank Mankiewicz and Kirby Jones, 1975.

Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.

First President-Elect Weekly Transition Address, Broadcast 8 November 2008

Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.

Noam Chomsky (2011). “Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda”, p.77, Seven Stories Press

The world is governed by opinion.

Thomas Hobbes, John Bramhall, Vere Chappell (1999). “Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity”, p.92, Cambridge University Press

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Quoted in Clement Attlee, A Prime Minister Remembers (1961) See Briand 2; Clemenceau 4

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

"Why Republican Politicians Keep Selling Out Freedom" by Jo Jorgensen, gos.sbc.edu. 1996.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик