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Politics Quotes


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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

A free America, democratic in the sense that our forefathers intended it to be, means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call 'democracy' is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party. See quote detail

A politican is an animal who can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

A politician . . . one that would circumvent God.

A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation. - A politician looks for the success of his party; a statesman for that of his country. - The statesman wishes to steer, while the politician is satisfied to drift.

A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong. - You cannot, by tying an opinion to a man's tongue, make him the representative of that opinion; and at the close of any battle for principles, his name will be found neither among the dead, nor the wounded, but among the missing.

A statesman is an easy man, He tells his lies by rote; A journalist makes up his lies And takes you by the throat; So stay at home and drink your beer And let the neighbors vote.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

All I know is I'm not a Marxist.

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.


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