Politics Quotes


Man is by nature a political animal.
Aristotle (384-322 BC)

Politics is the science of how who gets what, when and why.
Sidney Hillman (1887-1946) American trade unionist.

He who gives food to the people will win.
Lech Walesa (b.1943) Polish Solidarity leader.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Irish philosopher, statesman.

Politics is the diversion f trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
George Jean Nathan (1882-1958) American critic.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Politics is not an exact science.
Prince Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) Prussian statesman.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Henry B.Adams (1838-1918) American historian.

I am invariably of the politics of people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
George Borrow (1803-1881)

I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Ronald Reagan (b.1911)

If ever this free people if this government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office, which is but a way to live without work.
Abraham Lincoln.

There is no gambling like politics.
Disraeli.

People vote their resentment, not their appreciation. The average man does not vote for anything but against something.
William Bennett Munro.

I resent at any time or at any place the attitude that the safety of this country depends on any man holding his job. No man has achieved that strength, and this country has not deteriorated to that weakness.
Owen D.Young.

A politician is like quick-silver: if you try to put your finger on him, you find nothing under it.
Austin O’Malley.

I wonder if there is anyone in the world who can really direct the affairs of the world, or of his country, with any assurance of the result his actions would have.
Montagu C. Norman.

We shall have to fight the politician, who remembers only that the unborn have no votes and that since posterity has done nothing for us we need do nothing of posterity.
Dean Inge.

Nothing is more deceitful than the statements that what we need in politics is the business man. Politics are a business at least they are a field in which experience tells for usefulness and effectiveness and a man who has devoted his entire life to the successful establishment of a business is generally not the man who will be useful to the public in the administration of public business.
William Howard Taft.

There is among you the man who is not bound by party lines. You vote according to your common sense and your claim judgment after hearing each party set forth its program. To you I say that the strength of this independent thought is the great contribution of the American political system.
Franklin D.Roosevelt.

To let politics become a cesspool, and then avoid it because it is a cesspool, is a double crime.
Howard Crosby.

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.
Dniel O’Connell.

It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most sordid interests and the fiercest passions of mean confederates.
Bulwer.

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