Politics Quotes - Page 59

In developing our industrial strategy for the period ahead, we have the benefit of much experience. Almost everything has been tried at least once

I am a public library

A monkey was the President, though maybe not the first. And there was peace and harmony throughout the universe.

The Lord's our shepherd, says the psalm. But just in case, we better get a bomb.

We will also never bring up the permanent tax cut the president is advocating.

We can achieve much greater representation through term-limited members.

Well, It's a Communist country, and the Communists do not reward personal initiative...except by execution.

It is unpleasant to see character throw itself away.

In the progress of politics, as in the common occurrences of life, we are not only apt to forget the ground we have travelled over, but frequently neglect to gather up experiences as we go.

"Government," says Swift, "is a plain thing, and fitted to the capacity of many heads."

It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself.

I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that.

I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary opinions.

Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error.

I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.

I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the advance of truth and science.

It will be said that great societies cannot exist without government.

The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated under it.

With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.

The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

We are completely saddled and bridled, and... the bank is so firmly mounted on us that we must go where it will guide.

I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable, but the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property.

No man has done everything he can who has done only his best.

...is the spirit of the people an infallible, a permanent reliance? ...the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless.