Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Politicians

• It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Political, Politician, Terrible

  "The Cleveland Press" Newspaper, March 1, 1921.

• For good or evil, a line has been passed in our political history; and something that we have known all our lives is dead. I will take only one example of it: our politicians can no longer be caricatured.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Humor, Evil, Political

• When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Office, Experts

  Illustrated London News, April 6, 1918.

• Half a truth is better than no politics.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Half, Politics, Truth Is

• For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Dull, Lasts, Politician

  "All Things Considered". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1908.

• I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Courage, School, Boys

• They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my childlike faith in practical politics.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Believe, Fundamentals, Politician

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

• Political Economy means that everybody except politicians must be economical.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Political, Politician

• Every politician is emphatically a promising politician.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Politician

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