Phil Ochs Quotes About Politics

Quotes about: Politics

• One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies.

  Phil Ochs

  Song, Peace, People

  Broadside Magazine (1962), later quoted in James E. Perone "Songs of the Vietnam Conflict" (p. 19), 2001.

• Comfort his family with a telegram, we regret to inform you we lost a man, but we gave him the highest medal of the land.

  Phil Ochs

  Regret, Men, Land

• If you ever get a war without blood and gore, well, I'll be the first to go.

  Phil Ochs

  War, Blood, Politics

• Maybe we should raise our voices, ask somebody why. But demonstrations are a drag, besides we're much too high.

  Phil Ochs

  Voice, Politics, Should

  Song: Outside of a Small Circle of Friends, Album: Pleasures of the Harbor

• One legged veterans will greet the dawn, and they're whistling marches as they mow the lawn, and the gargoyles on sit and grieve.

  Phil Ochs

  Grieving, Dawn, Politics

• Only as strong as our love for this land, only as tall as we stand.

  Phil Ochs

  Strong, Land, Our Love

  Song: The Power and The Glory, Album: All the News That's Fit to Sing

• The glory that was Lincoln's never died when he was slain.

  Phil Ochs

  Politics, Glory, Died

  Song: That Was the President, Album: I Ain't Marching Anymore

• It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.

  Phil Ochs

  Struggle, Winning, Politics

  "Complete Phil Ochs: Chords of Fame". Book edited by Tom Nolan and Mark Eliot, 1978.

• Is there anybody here who thinks that following the orders takes away the blame Is there anybody here who wouldn't mind a murder by another name?

  Phil Ochs

  Thinking, Order, Names

  Song: Is There Anybody Here

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