Politics Quotes - Page 20

By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon, and it will be American.

Each generation is responsible to make the future of the next.

Obama hasn't been working to earn reelection, he's been working to earn a spot on the PGA tour!

Whoever has an army has power and that war decides everything.

Following rulers instead of prophets, the wicked can rule you, but the knowledge can stop it.

Patriotism corrupts history.

More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.

I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.

Currency warfare is the most destructive form of economic warfare.

In the era of imperialism, businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of succcessful businessmen.

The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money.

I believe that everything is political, and as such it should concern all of us. Authors who claim they don't deal with politics in their work are being naive, because even that is a political stance.

It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry.

Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.

Authority doesn't work without prestige, or prestige without distance.

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

Laws cannot be imposed on him who is the master of the law.

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

In the contexts of religion and politics, words are not regarded as standing, rather inadequately, for things and events; on the contrary things and events are regarded as particular illustrations of words.

Nancy, if I were your husband I'd drink it.

The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.

Revolutions never go backward.

Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.

One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.