Famous Quotes About politics

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.