Quotes About Politics

Man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

The Middle East is a region where oil is thicker than blood.

I do not choose to run for President in 1928.

Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Whatever has a tendency to promote the civil intercourse of nations by an exchange of benefits is a subject as worthy of philosophy as of politics.

The Communist is a Socialist in a violent hurry.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is a temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

Every man in it is a great man, an orator, a critic, a statesman; and therefore every man upon every question must show his oratory, his criticism, and his political abilities.

Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.

Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all.

If the chief party, whether it be the people, or the army, or the nobility, which you think most useful and of most consequence to you for the conservation of your dignity, be corrupt, you must follow their humor and indulge them, and in that case honesty and virtue are pernicious.

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, but they are incidents to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.

In a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional, but must be maintained because it is indispensable.

It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

Democracy is a festival of mediocrity.

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for diose who deny the whole of it.

Nothing unites the English like war. Nothing divides them like Picasso.

Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, etc. They would be an Encyclopedia of Errors.

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority for any town?

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