Best 5810 quotes in «politics quotes» category

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.

The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.

The cavalries charged and the Indians died, oh the country was young with God on its side.

The cause of the riots were the rioters

The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.

The Civil Service is a bit like a rusty weathercock. It moves with opinion then it stays where it is until another wind moves it in a different direction

The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.

The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.

The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life.

The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs. Often by foregoing a part he saves the whole, and by yielding in a small matter secures a greater.

The Conservative sees in the free market the harmony of interests and rules of cooperation that also underlie the civil society.

The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite's concern is the conquest of men.

The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it

The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.

The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

The Democratic Party's complete obeisance to [the abortion] lobby makes Democrats look bought, frightened and craven.

The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,--because both parties stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and the other to keep.

The definition of terrorism is killing civilians with the intent of changing their political affiliation.

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

The Democrats often seem like the Not Republican Party, no more and no less.

The destruction, it is just very heart-rendering.

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.

The doer and the thinker, no allowances for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenaries creed.

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.

The drunken politician leaps upon the street where mothers weep, and the saviors who are fast asleep, they wait for you.

The duty of an Opposition is to oppose.

The EPA is now the Employment Prevention Agency.

The economic answer to the world's problems is John Adams, not [Karl] Marx.

The Empress is legitimate, my cousin is Republican, Morny is Orleanist, I am a socialist; the only Bonapartist is Persigny, and he is mad.

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.

The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it.

The excrement bubbles, the century slime decays, and the brainwashing government lackeys would have us say it's under control.

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.

The fact is that a liberal Democrat doesn't want to talk about ideology because they don't want to explain publicly what they're really doing.

The fact of the matter is that today, stuff-selling mega-corporations have a huge influence on our daily lives. And because of the competitive nature of our global economy, these corporations are generally only concerned with one thing - the bottom line. That is, maximising profit, regardless of the social or environmental costs.

The face of totalitarianism turned out to be a mask - obviously - but the face of Capitalism has no face at all.

The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me, and a matter of bewilderment for my wife.

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.

The Federal Reserve is the overlord of the money supply. If these two are not steering in the same direction, they can either neutralize each other or have the economy lurching in all directions. This is not a rational system for setting economic policy. It has given us trouble in the past, as the text will establish, and will inevitably in the future.

The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

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

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.