Quotes About Politics

I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.

It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.

The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,' and I believe it is a good thing, this ambition to be a cosmopolitan, this idea to be citizens not of a small parcel of the world that changes according to the currents of politics, according to the wars, to what occurs, but to feel that the whole world is our country.

Patriotism, that least discerning of passions. - The Shape of the Sword

Pero este tipo de argumentos no tuvo mucho peso cuando el viernes 29 de septiembre del 2006 el Senado de Estados Unidos autorizó la construcción de un muro de casi 700 millas en la frontera con México. Ni siquiera hubo fuerte oposición. Ochenta senadores votaron a favor (incluyendo a Barack Obama y John McCain) y sólo diecinueve se opusieron.

Public discourse, the moment it becomes basically neutralized with regard to a strict standard of truth, stands by its nature ready to serve as an instrument in the hands of any ruler to pursue all kinds of power schemes.

Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can't bother about where they're going.

As a matter of practical necessity, socialist democracy may eventually turn out to be more of a sham than capitalist democracy ever was. In any case, that democracy will not mean increased personal freedom.

By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman or the charlatan.

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The democratic idea', he had pointed out, 'was not that legislative bodies shd. represent the momentary idiocy of the multitude.

the democratic idea' would not necessarily lead to the idea of 'the great protagonist' either; and further, that 'the great protagonists' in the 1930s would be, not a Jefferson or an Adams, but Mussolini, Stalin, and Hitler.

Louisiana politics is of an intensity and complexity that are matched, in my experience, only in the republic of Lebanon.

Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

America has always understood that it is defined by what it stands against more than what it stands for.

nothing transformed the politics, the economy and the table of Europe like the potato. The tuber from Peru.

Democratic Socialism devolves into totalitarian Socialism and eventually into full on Communism as people resist statism.

A Whig is a sort of third sex by itself that combines all the failings of the other two.

Otto von Bismarck] only considered the interests of his own country - always the worst offense that a statesman can commit in the eyes of foreigners.

Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.

It is always tempting when you have political discontent in your own country to say it is the fault of some other country and not of your own government.

In political situations, we should be careful not to assume "everyone is wrong" and "just compromise.

I'm a registered Republican, I only seem liberal because I believe that hurricanes are caused by high barometric pressure and not gay marriage.