Quotes About Politics

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

The truth is that men are tired of liberty.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

If worthless men are sometimes at the head of affairs, it is, I believe, because worthless men are at the tail and the middle

All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.

The young man who joins a political party is a traitor to his generation and to his race.

One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship.

Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.

Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants.

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

Shrewdness in public life all over the world is always honored, while honesty in public men is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded.

Democracy virtually assures that only bad and dangerous men will ever rise to the top of government.

Our hope is not in the man we put in the White House but in the Man we put on the Cross.

I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the constitution to a man who will burn the constitution and then wrap himself in the flag.

My experience has proved that a man who is running for office, and is not willing to make his honest opinions known to the public, either has no honest opinions or is not honest about them.

Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor.

Men like M. de Talleyrand are like sharp instruments with which it is dangerous to play.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

With the NDAA, his failure to close Guantanamo Bay and the ramping use of drones, President Obama looks suspiciously like President Bush, a man on a quest for American Empire.

The whole argument with the anti-suffragists, or even the critical suffragist man, is this: that you can govern human beings without their consent.

What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.

Overall, white men run America. From nuclear armaments to the filth and jeopardy of New York City subways to the cruel mismanagement of health care, is there anything to boast about?

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.