Quotes About Politics

En realidad, muy de acuerdo con nuestra tradición mental, en la cual las palabras no sirven para nombrar las cosas sino para disfrazarlas, liberal y conservador no eran palabras que denotaran una filosofía, sino etiquetas que diferenciaban a los mismos protagonistas en distintos momentos de la rebatiña.

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

"Vote early and vote often," the advice openly displayed on the election banners in one of our northern cities.

Like any crowd in a democracy they were looking for someone to vent their anger on

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

The fact that the root of Fourth Generation war is a political, social, and moral phenomenon, the decline of the state, means there can be no purely military solution to Fourth Generation threats. Military force is incapable, by itself, of restoring legitimacy to a state.

At the mental level, Fourth Generation war turns Clausewitz on his head. Clausewitz wrote that war is the extension of politics by other means. At the mental level of Fourth Generation war, politics is the extension of war by other means. Not only are all politics local, but everything local is politics.

Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.

To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose,And plant this thorn, this canker, Bolingbroke.

For how can tyrants safely govern home,Unless abroad they purchase great alliance?

For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,That he is grown so great?

Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs,You would say it hath been all in all his study.

When politics becomes a matter of vilification and innuendo, then eventually people feel repugnance for the whole process. It is the beginning of a yearning for a strong man who will rise above petty and partisan groups. The Nazis were to exploit this feeling fully, and though they contributed richly to the rise of partisan acrimony, they were also the first to pronounce "politician" with every possible tone of scorn and sarcasm.

Conservatism, it was called; and certainly it did conserve the devil admirably.

Authoritarian government isn't dead; it's just hibernating, poised to return in the Fourth Turning, rested and refreshed.

The separation of religion from the practical affairs of society is a convenient doctrine for those who fear that social change would threaten of modify their own political and social self-interest.

a language is just a dialect with an army,

Vox populi, vox Humbug.

You may tell anyone you want," Khrushchev continued, "that we will never accept Adenauer as a representative of Germany. He is a zero. If Adenauer pulls down his pants and you look at him from behind you can see Germany is divided. If you look at him from the front, you can see Germany will not stand.

If nominated, I will not run if elected, I will not serve.

I hereby state, and mean all that I say, that I never have been and never will be a candidate for President; that if nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline; and even if unanimously elected I should decline to serve.