Quotes by Politicians - Page 3

It's not my victory, it's yours and yours and yours. If a gay can win, it means there is hope that the system can work for all minorities if we fight. We've given them hope.

Harvey Milk

Conservatives believe in the ties that bind us. Society is stronger when we make vows to each other and we support each other. I don’t support gay marriage in spite of being a conservative. I support gay marriage because I am a conservative.

David Cameron

The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.

Frédéric Bastiat

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Nikita Khrushchev

The pen is mightier than the sword!

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Some things never change

Jeffrey Archer

Adversity removes the friends prosperity has harvested.

C.J. Langenhoven

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Theodore Roosevelt

A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

John Adams

Nothing in the world can take place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful individuals with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Calvin Coolidge

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

Ronald Reagan

Federal and state laws (should) be changed to no longer make it a crime to possess marijuana for private use.

Richard M. Nixon

Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my Commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life. (Address to Congress on Resigning Commission Dec 23, 1783)

George Washington

Ironically for someone who had so long asserted his own individuality as his first and best defense against insults of any kind, I discovered that faith in myself proved to be the least formidable strength I possessed when confronting alone organized inhumanity on a greater scale than I had conceived possible. Faith in myself was important, and remains important to my self esteem. But I discovered in prison that faith in myself alone, sep0arate from other, more important allegiances , was ultimately no match for the cruelty that human beings could devise when they were entirely unencumbered by respect for the God given dignity of man. This is the lesson I learned in prison. It is, perhaps, the most important lesson I have ever learned.

John McCain

He who does not know his past cannot make the best of his present and future, for it is from the past that we learn.

Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Calvin Coolidge

We should use our imagination more than our memory.

Shimon Peres

We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

Dean Rusk

Special Super Bowl Wisdom of the Ages: "Super Bowl Sunday" "Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain-and all the children are insane.-" The Doors

Matthew Heines

A faith that hasn't been tested can't be trusted.

Adrian Rogers

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

Winston S. Churchill

Common sense is a chaotic aggregate of disparate conceptions, and one can find there anything that one like.

Antonio Gramsci

People will hold an opinion because they want to keep the company of others who share the opinion, or because they think it is the respectable opinion, or because they have publicly expressed the opinion in the past and would be embarrassed by a “U-turn,” or because the world would suit them better if the opinion were true, or . . . Perhaps it is better to get on with your family and friends, to avoid embarrassment, or to comfort yourself with fantasies than to believe the truth. But those who approach matters in this way should give up any pretensions to intellectual seriousness. They are not genuinely interested in reality.

Jamie Whyte

Love brought its tail of pains,its long static beam of thorns,and we close our eyes so that nothing,so that no wound will separate us.

Pablo Neruda

The more profoundly we study this wonderful book [the Bible], and the more closely we observe its divine precept, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation.

William McKinley

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?

Cicero

The city is the size of a country, but has been operated like a candy store.

Edward I. Koch

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.

John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

I do not think that illegal plunder, such as theft or swindling — which the penal code defines, anticipates, and punishes — can be called socialism. It is not this kind of plunder that systematically threatens the foundations of society. Anyway, the war against this kind of plunder has not waited for the command of these gentlemen. The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. Long before the Revolution of February 1848 — long before the appearance even of socialism itself — France had provided police, judges, gendarmes, prisons, dungeons, and scaffolds for the purpose of fighting illegal plunder. The law itself conducts this war, and it is my wish and opinion that the law should always maintain this attitude toward plunder.

Frédéric Bastiat

I have one life and one chance to make it count for something... 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

We cannot change the history of the past.

Jimmy Carter

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

George Washington

There is nothing to be gained by waiting for a better situation. You see where you are and you do what you can with that.

Jacob K. Javits

Our individualism has always been bound by a set of communal values, the glue upon which every healthy society depends.

Barack Obama

The very first essential for success is a perpetually constant and regular employment of violence.

Adolf Hitler

Circumstances alter cases.

Thomas Haliburton

Le passé et le présent sont deux statues incomplètes: l'une a été retirée toute mutilée du débris des âges, l'autre n'a pas encore reçu sa perfection de l'avenir.

Francois Rene De Chateaubriand

The men worked hard and faithfully. As a rule, in spite of the number of rough characters among them, they behaved very well. One night a few of them went on a spree, and proceeded "to paint San Antonio red." One was captured by the city authorities, and we had to leave him behind us in jail. The others we dealt with ourselves, in a way that prevented a repetition of the occurrence.

Theodore Roosevelt

It was not lack of ability that limited my people, but lack of opportunity.

Nelson Mandela

Although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.

Barack Obama

One reason I continue to oppose efforts to criminalize abortion is that I do not believe any government should have the power to dictate, through law or police action, a woman's most personal decisions.""I consider that a slippery slope to state control of reproduction, and I'd witnessed the consequences of such control in China and Communist Romania.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Eleanor Holmes Norton

Death so called is a thing which makes men weep And yet a third of life is pass'd in sleep.

Lord Byron

Money per se does not make you happy - it's what it enables you to do with your life.

Lois P. Frankel

The Whites have carried to these (colonial) people the worst that they could carry: the plagues of the world: materialism, fanaticism, alcoholism, and syphilis. Moreover, since what these people possessed on their own was superior to anything we could give them, they have remained themselves... The sole result of the activity of the colonizers is: they have everywhere aroused hatred.

Adolf Hitler

The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital. Hundreds of laws of Congress and the state legislatures are in the interest of these men and against the interests of workingmen. These need to be exposed and repealed. All laws on corporations, on taxation, on trusts, wills, descent, and the like, need examination and extensive change. This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.

Donald J. Trump

When you listen, it's amazing what you can learn. When you act on what you've learned, it's amazing what you can change.

Audrey McLaughlin

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

Benjamin Disraeli

Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.

Clare Boothe Luce

If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.

Shirley Chisholm

Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!

Leon Trotsky

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

Cicero

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Am I then more of an American than those who drew their first breath on American Ground?

Alexander Hamilton

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Pablo Neruda

The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We feel morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. Concepts such as love, friendship, compassion, humility or forgiveness lost their depth and dimension.

Václav Havel

States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently about states' rights today are not seeking the protection of the individual citizen, but his exploitation. . . . The time is long past - if indeed it ever existed - when we should permit the noble concept of States' rights to be betrayed and corrupted into a slogan to hide the bald denial of American rights, of civil rights, and of human rights.

Robert F. Kennedy

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