Political Life Quotes - Page 6

• Social and political life is a Society for the Diffusion of Mendacity .

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Political, Life Is, Social

  "Sketches from Life". Book by Samuel Laman Blanchard, Volumes 1-2, 1846.

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• Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of their own faith. And the duty of encouraging laws that are not in contradiction with the Commandments comes within the mission of the Church.

  Karl Lehmann

  Christian, Responsibility, Law

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• A political life, I've often said, is a continuing education in human nature, including one's own. My involvement on the ground floor of two presidential campaigns and my duties as First Lady took me to every state in our union and to seventy-eight nations. In each place, I met someone or saw something that caused me to open my mind and my heart and deepen my understanding of the universal concerns that most of humanity shares.

  Hillary Clinton

  Heart, Eight, Two

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• In former days, when there were Whigs instead of Liberals, it was almost a rule of political life that all leading Whigs sould be uncles, brothers-in-law, or cousins to each other. This was pleasant and gave great consistency to the party; but the system has now gone out of vogue.

  Anthony Trollope

  Cousin, Brother, Uncles

  Anthony Trollope (2011). “Phineas Redux”, p.95, OUP Oxford

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• I think we Americans, of all people, understand the importance of a good, legal, constitutional framework as the basis of political life.

  Paul Bremer

  Thinking, People, Political

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