Quotes by Politicians - Page 5

But yeah, like everyone else in our family, they could go from zero to murderous in a fucking heartbeat.

J.D. Vance

Nick chided a censor, who wished some books gone, and suggested she scan Fahrenheit 451. For the book-budget cutters, Old Claus had no plan, cause if they could read, they just read Ayn Rand.

David Davis

No, my dog used to gaze at me,paying me the attention I need,the attention requiredto make a vain person like me understandthat, being a dog, he was wasting time,but, with those eyes so much purer than mine,he’d keep on gazing at mewith a look that reserved for me aloneall his sweet and shaggy life,always near me, never troubling me,and asking nothing.

Pablo Neruda

I don't know what effect these men will have on the enemy but by God they frighten me.

Duke of Wellington

The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of th

John F Kennedy

God made them as stubble to our swords.

Oliver Cromwell

He talked about the future with such certainty, he might have been talking about the past.

Michael Dobbs

The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise it can be experienced - it can not be told.

Calvin Coolidge

A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All knowledge is transient linked to the world around it and subject to change as the world changes, whereas wisdom, true wisdom is eternal immutable. To be philosophical one must love wisdom for its own sake, accept its permanent validity and yet its perpetual irrelevance. It is the fate of the wise to understand the process of history and yet never to shape it.

Shashi Tharoor

If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.

Henry A. Wallace

Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

Winston S. Churchill

War would end if the dead could return.

Stanley Baldwin

Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

George Washington

I'm not perfect but I'll be the creator of perfection.

Colin Powell

It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.

David Ormsby Gore

Moreover, I believe that part of America's genius has always been its ability to absorb newcomers, to forge a national identity out of the disparate lot that arrived on our shores. In this we've been aided by a Constitution that--despite being marred by the original sin of slavery--has at its very core the ideas of equal citizenship under the laws; and an economic system that, more than any other, has offered opportunity to all comers, regardless of status or title or rank.

Barack Obama

Luck is what a capricious man believes in.

Benjamin Disraeli

If you want to be relevant only in your household, then you only need to know the things that are important in your house, and if you want to be relevant in your neighborhood, you need to know what's important in your neighborhood. The same thing applies to your city, state, and country. And if you want to be relevant to the entire world, program that computer known as your brain with all kinds of information from everywhere in order to prepare yourself.

Ben Carson

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.

Mikhail Gorbachev

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between her work and her play; her labor and her leisure; her mind and her body; her education and her recreation. She hardly knows which is which. She simply pursues her vision of excellence through whatever she is doing, and leaves others to determine if she is working or playing. To herself, she always appears to be doing both.

Francois Rene De Chateaubriand

We seek no treasure, we seek no territorial gains, we seek only the right of man to be free; we seek his rights to worship his god, to lead his life in his own way, secure from persecution. As the humble labourer returned from his work when the day is don, and sees the smoke curling upwards from his cottage home in the serene evening sky, we wish him to know that no rat-a-tat of the secret police upon his door will disturb his leisure or interrupt his rest.

Winston S. Churchill

It ain't no broken.

Scott Taylor

What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it's a tribute to the physical and moral courage that makes heroes out of farm and city boys and that inspires Americans in every generation to lay down their lives for people they will never meet, for ideals that make life itself worth living.

Bob Dole

Wisdom of the Ages: "Tooth Fairy" Growing up in the Northwest was tough. For years I thought the Tooth Fairy was a big boat with cars and sharp teeth.

Matthew Heines

Take bread away from me, if you wish,take air away, butdo not take from me your laughter.Do not take away the rose,the lance flower that you pluck,the water that suddenlybursts forth in joy,the sudden waveof silver born in you.My struggle is harsh and I come backwith eyes tiredat times from having seenthe unchanging earth,but when your laughter entersit rises to the sky seeking meand it opens for me allthe doors of life.My love, in the darkesthour your laughteropens, and if suddenlyyou see my blood stainingthe stones of the street,laugh, because your laughterwill be for my handslike a fresh sword.Next to the sea in the autumn,your laughter must raiseits foamy cascade,and in the spring, love,I want your laughter likethe flower I was waiting for,the blue flower, the roseof my echoing country.Laugh at the night,at the day, at the moon,laugh at the twistedstreets of the island,laugh at this clumsyfool who loves you,but when I openmy eyes and close them,when my steps go,when my steps return,deny me bread, air,light, spring,but never your laughter.

Pablo Neruda

The new world is as yetbehind the veil of destinyIn my eyes, howeverits dawn has been unveiled

Muhammad Iqbal

...this protracted war will pass through three stages. The first stage covers the period of the enemy's strategic offensive and our strategic defensive. The second stage will be the period of the enemy's strategic consolidation and our preparation for the counter-offensive. The third stage will be the period of our strategic counter-offensive and the enemy's strategic retreat.

Mao Zedong

Do not let us speak of darker days let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

Winston Churchill

Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.

Nelson Mandela

Democracy is the best revenge.

Benazir Bhutto

If you haven't failed you haven't tried anything new...

Reshma Saujani

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

George Washington

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

Theodore Roosevelt

Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook.

Ronald Reagan

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Jawaharlal Nehru

If you are scared to go to the brink you are lost.

John Foster Dulles

Sooner or later our dream will become a true, (Independence)

Davan Yahya Khalil

It is not in our hands to prevent the murder of workers… and families… but it is in our hands to fix a high price for our blood, so high that the Arab community and the Arab military forces will not be willing to pay it.

Moshe Dayan

We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land

Aneurin Bevan

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

Golda Meir

Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eye.

Roy Bennett

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

Woodrow Wilson

Across the globe, even in the world's "worst places," people found ways to turn pain into wisdom and suffering into strength. They made their own actions, their very lives, into a memorial that honored the people they had lost.

Eric Greitens

Armed I am with love. Disarmed I am.

Manuel Alegre

Recognize at all times the paramount right of your Country to your most devoted services, whether she treat you ill or well, and never let selfish views or interests predominate over the duties of patriotism.

Henry Clay

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.

James Madison

We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.

Winston S. Churchill

If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.

Adolf Hitler

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

Ronald Reagan

I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.

Woodrow Wilson

If ideas and beliefs are to be denied validity outside the geographical and cultural bounds of their origin, Buddhism would be confined to north India, Christianity to a narrow tract in the Middle East and Islam to Arabia.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them.

Ronald Reagan

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

B.R. Ambedkar

Popular applause veers with the wind.

John Bright

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

Winston S. Churchill

Ideas and opinions are not spontaneously "born" in each individual brain: they have had a centre of formation, or irradiation, of dissemination, of persuasion-a group of men, or a single individual even, which has developed them and presented them in the political form of current reality.

Antonio Gramsci

The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.

Vladimir Lenin

The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it

Aneurin Bevan

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

Jeannette Rankin

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

Winston S. Churchill

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