Quotes About Politics

You must remember, my friend, that if we leave the governing to others, then others will govern, and possibly not as we would like. In a country such as this, none of us is free of responsibility.

The mob was made up of the refuse of every class: disempowered aristocrats, disillusioned intellectuals, gangsters, denizens of the underworld. They were people who believed that the respectable world was a conspiracy to deny them what they were owed; they were embodiments of the politics of resentment. Arendt thought that the leadership of totalitarian movements came from this group.

In a time when the chance of another civil war did not seem remote, a philosophy that warned against the idolatry of ideas was possibly the only philosophy on which a progressive politics could have been successfully mounted.

Mere mouthpieces of a party, take away the party & they shrivel & vanish.

I find it poor logic to say that because women are good, women should vote. Men do not vote because they are good; they vote because they are male, and women should vote, not because we are angels and men are animals, but because we are human beings and citizens of this country.

politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names

In her secret soul, however, she decided that politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names…

she decided that politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names

Poison-pen artists on both sides wrote vitriolic essays that were overtly partisan, often paid scant heed to accuracy, and sought a visceral impact.

Our friends do feel that we have not received fair treatment from the Republican Party, but we expect better things in the future.

As such, he presided over these sordid municipal skirmishes, albeit keeping a sanitary distance.

Right on the eve of Tidewater's success, Rockefeller decided that he might recoup in the political arena what he was on the verge of losing in the economic sphere.

People were "governed more by passion and prejudice than by an enlightened sense of their interests

In retrospect, it seems clear that the ambiguous signals from the White House reflected more than duplicity on Roosevelt's part

We consider situation critical, politicians appear to have absolute control.

Hamilton seldom published under his own name and drew on a bewildering array of pseudonyms. Such pen names were sometimes transparent masks through which the public readily identified prominent politicians. The fashion of allowing anonymous attacks permitted extraordinary bile to seep into political discourse, and savage remarks that might not otherwise have surfaced appeared regularly in the press.

Washington as public sentiment began to lean toward railroad reform.

By now, monarchy and aristocracy were standard code words for Hamilton and the Federalists.

May 12, 1784, the state legislature passed a law depriving most Loyalists of the vote for the next two years.

between 1789 and 1791, France basked in some sort of liberal pleasure garden before the erection of the guillotine is a complete fantasy.

U.S. Steel had pushed Frank Kellogg to target Standard Oil so as to deflect heat from itself.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

What also gave the book its force was Lloyd's political message: "Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty.

cannot doubt, from the evidence that I possess[,] that the National Gazette was instituted by him [Jefferson] for political purposes and that one leading object of it has been to render me and all the measures connected with my department as odious as possible.