Quotes About Politics

Attlee is a modest man who has a great deal to be modest about.

the sharpest political differences are sometimes found not incompatible with personal friendship.

I had no idea in those days of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples.

But the more firmly Russia can establish herself in the saddle now the farther she will ride in the future and the more precarious our holdfast will become.

If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.

In 1933 the students of the Oxford Union, under the inspiration of a Mr. Joad, passed their ever-shameful resolution, "That this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and Country.

The almost complete exclusion of religion in all its forms from the political sphere had left Nationalism the most powerful moulding instrument of mankind in temporal affairs.

By this time next year we shall know whether the Prime Minister's view of Herr Hitler and the German Nazi Party is right or wrong. By this time next year we shall know whether the policy of appeasement has appeased, or whether it has only stimulated a more ferocious appetite.

The growth of the great antagonisms abroad was accompanied by the progressive aggravation of party strife at home.

Churchill used words for different purposes: to argue for moral and political causes, to advocate courses of action in the social, national and international spheres, and to tell the story of his own life and that of Britain and its place in the world.

It has been well said that wherever there are three Jews it will be found that there are two Prime Ministers and one leader of the Opposition.

We have had nothing else but wars since democracy took charge.

Fascism was the shadow or ugly child of Communism

while here and there the bright flashes of the guns or the occasional whistle of a random bullet accompanied our path, the conviction came into my mind with absolute assurance that the simple soldiers and their regimental officers, armed with their cause, would by their virtues in the end retrieve the mistakes and ignorances of Staffs and Cabinets, of Admirals, Generals and politicians—

The Greeks rival the Jews in being the most politically-minded race in the world..…No two cities have counted more with mankind than Athens and Jerusalem.

The machinery of a great party, and still more of a great conspiracy, needed careful and constant attention.

Great Britain and the United States all one? Yes, I am all for that, and you mean me to run for President?

As Fascism sprang from Communism, so Nazism developed from Fascism.

Burke's dictum, "If I cannot have reform without injustice, I will not have reform.

My literature must remain that which it is. Especially that something which does not fit into politics and does not want to serve it. I cultivate just one politics: my own. I am a separate state.

In other words, to be successful, American "Fascism" had to take on American form. Or to cite a dictum usually attributed to Huey Long: "When America gets Fascism it will call it Anti-Fascism.

It's about Russia.

Inez: You always take the side of the help. That's why Daddy says you're a communist.

Left wing, right wing, chicken wing.