Politics Quotes - Page 47

The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.

He collected audiences around him, and flourished and exhibited and harangued.

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Also, the Federal Advisory Committee should be enlarged and reorganized. Members should be chosen for the broadest possible representation of the public interest, their main qualification: ability.

Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.

You're going to be accused of every high crime and low misdemeanor there is.

Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods, Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hear Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.

When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.

I would like to have an ample fund to spread the light of Republicanism, but I am willing to undergo the disadvantage to make certain that in the future we shall reduce the power of money in politics for unworthy purposes.

The Muse is mute when public men Applaud a modern throne.

When you straddle a thing it takes a long time to explain it.

There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.

More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.

Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.

The Democrats and the Republicans are equally corrupt where money is concerned. It's only in the amount where the Republicans excel.

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

Stop seeing socialists and anti-Americans as Democrats. When a Michael Moore compares beheaders to our own Minutemen and laments that too many Democrats were in the World Trade Center, he deserves no platform alongside Wesley Clark or a seat next to Jimmy Carter or praise for his pseudo-dramas from high Democrats.

When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there, the status quo looks very good

I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing

France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.

Politics is mostly pill-taking.

Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.

We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the whole society, is a practicable government.

I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason.