Quotes by Politicians - Page 16

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

Marquis de Sade

I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.....

Pablo Neruda

Father giving advice to son: Never do anything once around the house that you don't want to do for the rest of your life.

Frank Briggs

When there are two PhD's in a developing country one is Head of State and the other is in exile.

Lord Samuel

China has no income tax no unemployed and not a single soldier outside its own territory.

Chou En-lai

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either

Golda Meir

We are bound in honor to strive to bring ever nearer the day when, as far is humanly possible, we shall be able to realize the ideal that each man shall have an equal opportunity to show the stuff that is in him by the way in which he renders service.

Theodore Roosevelt

Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.

Benjamin Disraeli

Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

Woodrow Wilson

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

George Washington

Fear connotes something that interferes with what you’re doing.

John Glenn

Implicit … in the very idea of ordered liberty, was a rejection of absolute truth, the infallibility of any idea or ideology or theology or “ism,” any tyrannical consistency that might lock future generations into a single, unalterable course, or drive both majorities and minorities into the cruelties of the Inquisition, the pogrom, the gulag, or the jihad....A rejection of absolutism, in all its forms, may sometimes slip into moral relativism or even nihilism, an erosion of values that hold society together…

Barack Obama

Old age is by nature rather talkative.

Cicero

It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters. We become enamored with men’s theories such as the idea of preschool training outside the home for young children. Not only does this put added pressure on the budget, but it places young children in an environment away from mother’s influence. Too often the pressure for popularity, on children and teens, places an economic burden on the income of the father, so mother feels she must go to work to satisfy her children’s needs. That decision can be most shortsighted. It is mother’s influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child’s basic character. Home is the place where a child learns faith, feels love, and thereby learns from mother’s loving example to choose righteousness. How vital are mother’s influence and teaching in the home—and how apparent when neglected!

Ezra Taft Benson

There is in addition to a courage with which men die a courage by which men must live.

John F Kennedy

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends,for it is one of God's best gifts.

Thomas Hughes

We must dare and dare again and go on daring.

Georges Jacques Danton

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

Winston S. Churchill

Swim or sink live or die survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.

John Adams

Behave like men, and not like witless sheep...

Dante Alighieri

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

Ronald Reagan

Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way and the other to let her have it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Whenever by an unfortunate occurrence of circumstances an opposition is compelled to support the government the support should be given with a kick and not a caress and should be withdrawn at the first available moment.

Randolph Churchill

I love memory sticks. They seem to me to be magic.

Ruth Rendell

In this part of the story I am the one whodies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you,because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood.

Pablo Neruda

Continuous efforts-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential.

Winston Churchill

The Congresswoman was depressed by the fact that a woman of her standing could no longer count on making it to the rest room "in time" during the extensive rehabilitation that followed her shooting. Her husband, commander of a space shuttle crew, encouraged her by identifying with her limitation. Even revered astronauts, he revealed, have bodily limits and have to rely on Huggies during extended launch exercises.

Gabrielle Giffords

Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where anything might happen. Here was a place where something would certainly happen.

Winston S. Churchill

The greatest gift of life is friendship and I have received it.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

Dean Acheson

Yesterday is not ours to recover but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Lyndon B. Johnson

More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.

Benjamin Disraeli

If you practice hard, you can win every battle.

Manny Pacquiao

Democracy is in the blood of the Muslims, who look upon complete equality of mankind, and believe in fraternity, equality, and liberty.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.

James Goldsmith

The canter is a cure for every evil.

Benjamin Disraeli

I have one life and one chance to make it count for something . . . I'm free to choose what that something is, and the something I've chosen is my faith. Now, my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands -- this is not optional -- my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.

Jimmy Carter

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The way to stop financial "joy-riding" is to arrest the chauffeur not the automobile.

Woodrow Wilson

The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.

Muhammad Iqbal

When people speak of great men, they think of men like Napoleon - men of violence. Rarely do they think of peaceful men. But contrast the reception they will receive when they return home from their battles. Napoleon will arrive in pomp and in power, a man who's achieved the very summit of earthly ambition. And yet his dreams will be haunted by the oppressions of war. William Wilberforce, however, will return to his family, lay his head on his pillow and remember: the slave trade is no more.

Charles Fox

What saddens me most is that some poor woman out there has to be Garth's wife. And his three children -- oh, his poor three children. What a despicable human being this guy is.

Benjamin Harrison

A nation lives forever through its concepts, honour, and culture. It is for these reasons that the rulers of nations must judge and act not only on the basis of physical and material interests of the nation but on the basis of the nation's historical honour, of the nation's eternal interests. Thus: not bread at all costs, but honour at all costs.

Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.

William H. Seward

After listening to thousands of pleas for pardon to offenders I can hardly recall a case where I did not feel that I might have fallen as my fellow man had done if I had been subjected to the same demoralizing influences and pressed by the same temptations.

Horatio Seymour

I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty. But we shall not be poor if we love liberty, because the nation that loves liberty truly sets every man free to do his best and be his best.

Woodrow Wilson

I have no family. My only responsibility is the welfare of Quebec. I belong to the province.

Maurice Duplessis

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails admit it frankly and try another but above all try something.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

(Exchange with Winston Churchill)Churchill explains that having a woman in Parliament was like having one intrude on him in the bathroom, to which the Lady Astor retorted, "Sir, you are not handsome enough to have such fears".

Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor

Whenever one person in a relationship is unwilling or unable to contact his or her vulnerability in the interaction, there is a simultaneous movement into judgement: self-attack, attack of the other, or both. This is a chicken-or-the-egg situation: Do you resort to judgment for protection because you don't feel safe, or are you not feeling safe because of the presence of judgment? This is a fundamental question in dealing with the judge.

Byron Brown

The power of Thought - the magic of the Mind!

Lord Byron

Whatever actually happened or was said, McChystal's refusal to defend himself - to give me any ammunition to use on his behalf - made it impossible for me to save his job. But to this day, I believe he was given the bum's rush by Biden, White House staff, and NSS who harbored deep resentment toward his unyielding advocacy the previous fall of counterinsurgency and a huge troop surge in Afghanistan; who interpreted his public comments back than as "boxing in" the president; and who continued to oppose the strategy approved by the president and the way McChrystal was implementing it. I am convinced the "Rolling Stone" article gave the president, egged on by those around him in the White House, and himself distrustful of the senior military, and opportunity he welcomed to demonstrate vividly - to the public and to the Pentagon - that he was commander in chief and fully in control of the military.

Robert M. Gates

The art of statemanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

She was like some ancient palimpsest on which layer upon layer of thought and reverie had been inscribed , and yet no succeeding layer had completely hidden or erased what had been written previously.

Jawaharlal Nehru

False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.

Horace Mann

What does the corpse care who was right and who was wrong?

Manuel Azaña

Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil!

Golda Meir

The faces of your young people in general are not interesting—I don't mean the children, but the young men and women—and they are awkward and clownish in their manners, without the quaintness of the elder generation, who are the funniest old dears in the world." "They will all be quaint enough as they get older. You must remember the sort of life they lead. They get their notions very slowly, and they must have notions in their heads before they can show them on their faces.

Thomas Hughes

It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.

Woodrow Wilson

Come follow me and leave the world to its babblings.

Dante Alighieri

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