Quotes by Politicians - Page 13

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Winston S. Churchill

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

André Malraux

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralise them.

Tony Benn

I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.

Gerald R. Ford

An ethnic minority can live in peace with an ethnic majority as long as the majority does not use its preponderance to turn the institutions of the state into an instrument of ethnic favoritism or ethnic justice.

Michael Ignatieff

Knowledge leaves no room for chances.

Lew Wallace

Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Winston S. Churchill

A little curly-headed good-for-nothing And mischief-making monkey from his birth.

Lord Byron

I've never thought my speeches were too long I've rather enjoyed them.

Hubert Humphrey

People stumble over the truth from time to time,but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Winston S. Churchill

Wisdom of the Ages "The Marshawn" US Army's new main battle tank. Runs over enemies instead of shooting them. Biggest expense: maintaining the dreadlocks hanging off the turret.

Matthew Heines

What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cover for the game. Though we may all look at the same things, it does not all follow that we should see them.

John Lubbock

LXXIXWhen I die, I want your hands on my eyes.I want the light and wheat of your beloved hands to pass their freshness over me once moreLI want to feel the softness that changed my destiny.I want you to live while I wait for you, asleep.I want your ears still to hear the wind, I want you to sniff the sea's aroma that we loved together,to continue to walk on the sand we walk on.I want what I love to continue to live,and you whom I love and sang above everything else.to continue to flourish, full-flowered.So that you can reach everything my love directs you to. So that my shadow can travel along in your hair,so that everything can learn the reason for my song.

Pablo Neruda

Terrorism is the war of the weak and war is the terrorism of the strong.

Martin Bell

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum."(Adlai E. Stevenson, 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician)

Adlai E. Stevenson II

Good deeds must be rewarded by the system and crimes be punished - this is the essence of meritocracy.

Imran Khan

For in the end laws are just words on a page - words that are sometimes malleable, opaque, as dependent on context and trust as they are in a story or poem or promise to someone, words whose meanings are subject to erosion, sometimes collapsing in the blink of an eye.

Barack Obama

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.

Pierre Trudeau

..each bloodletting hastens the next, and as the value of human life is degraded and violence becomes tolerated, the unimaginable becomes more conceivable.

Bill Clinton

Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt.

Theodore Roosevelt

The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.

Gaylord Nelson

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Benjamin Disraeli

The trout fisher, like the landscape painter, haunts the loveliest places of the earth, and haunts them alone. Solitude and his own thoughts—he must be on the best terms with all of these; and he who can take kindly the largest allowance of these is likely to be the kindliest and truest with his fellow men.

Thomas Hughes

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Our values call upon us to care about people we'll never meet.

Barack Obama

It takes a little crazy to make a difference.

Dafna Michaelson Jenet

By nice women . . . you probably mean selfish women who have no more thought for the underprivileged overworked women than a pussycat in a sunny window for the starving kitten in the street. Now in that sense I am not a nice woman for I do care.

Nellie McClung

If you, free as you are of every weighthad stayed below, then that would be as strangeas living flame on earth remaining still."And then she turned her gaze up toward the heavens.

Dante Alighieri

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

Horace Mann

The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object, and unfolds it within you, so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if, being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you.

Dante Alighieri

No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

Cicero

The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.

Eric Johnston

Don't go far off, not even for a day,because I don't know how to say it - a day is longand I will be waiting for you, as inan empty station when the trains areparked off somewhere else, asleep.Don't leave me, even for an hour, because thenthe little drops of anguish will all run together,the smoke that roams looking for a home will driftinto me, choking my lost heart.Oh, may your silhouette never dissolveon the beach, may your eyelids never flutterinto the empty distance. Don't LEAVE me fora second, my dearest, because in that moment you'llhave gone so far I'll wander mazilyover all the earth, asking, will youcome back? Will you leave me here, dying?

Pablo Neruda

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We should set them an example that we wish them to imitate.

Brigham Young

The Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy.

William White law

Be always sure you are right, then go ahead.

David Crockett

Embrace being perfectly imperfect. Learn from your mistakes and forgive yourself, you’ll be happier.

Roy Bennett

The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.

Millicent Fenwick

There is a tide in the affairs of women Which taken at the flood leads - God knows where.

Lord Byron

The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion.

Alexander Hamilton

Give until it hurts.

Corazon Cojuangco Aquino

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Ronald Reagan

The more doubtful the political outlook the fiercer will be the dogmas which men create and contend for.

John Buchan

The popular element "feels" but does not always know or understand; the intellectual element "knows" but does not always understand and in particular does not always feel.

Antonio Gramsci

[The Edwardian era] was a time of booming trade, of great prosperity and wealth in which the pageant of London Society took place year after year in a setting of traditional dignity and beauty. The great houses—Devonshire, Dorchester, Grosvenor, Stafford and Lansdowne House—had not yet been converted into museums, hotels and flats, and there we danced through the long summer nights till dawn. The great country-houses still flourished in their glory, and on their lawns in the green shade of trees the art of human intercourse was exquisitely practised by men and women not yet enslaved by household cares and chores who still had time to read, to talk, to listen and to think.

Violet Bonham Carter

When we think we lead we most are led.

Lord Byron

For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice. This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions. Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

To persevere in one's duty and be silent is the best answer to calumny.

George Washington

Malice is a greater magnifying-glass than kindness.

George Savile Halifax

While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

Eugene V. Debs

To gain the spiritual ascendancy over ourselves, and the influences with which we are surrounded, through a rigid course of self-discipline, is our first consideration, it is our first labor, before we can pave the way for our children to grow up without sin unto salvation.

Brigham Young

...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.

Michael Ignatieff

There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.

Theodore Roosevelt

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.

Theodore Roosevelt

The leaders of thought and of action grope theirway forward to a new life, realizing, sometimes dimly, sometimes clear-sightedly,that the life of material gain, whether for a nation or an individual, is of valueonly as a foundation, only as there is added to it the uplift that comes fromdevotion to loftier ideals.

Theodore Roosevelt

In America, anybody can be president.That's one of the risks you take.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.

Winston S. Churchill

Friendship is love without his wings!

Lord Byron

We're half the people we should be half the Congress.

Jeannette Rankin

If one has to submit it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

Winston Churchill

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