Political Quotes - Page 2

• Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?

  Robert Orben

  Inspirational, Feelings, Election

  Robert Orben (2012). “Joke Tellers Handbook”, p.90, Doubleday

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• Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

  Gore Vidal

  People, Fifty, Politics

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• It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Religious, Freedom

  "The Age of Louis XIV". Book by Voltaire, 1751.

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• The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Life, Happiness, Success

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• Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Trust, Country, Witty

  "Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisan War that is Destroying America". Book by Cal Thomas and Bob Beckel, 2007.

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• Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Life, Peace

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.454, Courier Corporation

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• He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

  Aesop

  Life, Wisdom, Giving

  Aesop (2013). “Aesop's Fables - Illustrated in Black and White By Nora Fry”, p.119, Read Books Ltd

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• The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

  Emma Goldman

  Alternatives, Politics, Rogues

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.36, 谷月社

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• The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Politics, Poverty, Sometimes

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Cheer, Mean, Thinking

  "Thatcher Put the "Great" Back in Great Britain" by Jack Kelly, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 14, 2013.

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• A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

  Leo Rosten

  Definitions, Politics, Conservative

  "The Modern Handbook of Humor". Book by Ralph Woods, 1967.

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  America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wisdom, Religious, Freedom

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• The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Men, Issues

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  The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Presidential

  Speech, 19 May 1856

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  Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Political Will, Greed, Nerd

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.271, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

  Everett Dirksen

  Leadership, Business, Men

  Recalled on his death, 7 Sep 1969.

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• Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

  Lily Tomlin

  Country, Honesty, Work

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  Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.

  Ron Paul

  Country, Rich Countries, Giving

  Ron Paul (2008). “Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property”, p.342, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Life, Change

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1988). “The Will Rogers scrapbook”, Random House Value Publishing

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• Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Military, War

  Speech to American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., 16 Apr. 1953

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• Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.

  Henri Queuille

  Funny, Art, Decision

  The Bureaucrat Magazine, 1985.

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• Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

  Will Rogers

  Witty, Sunset, Political Will

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• As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.836, Best Books on

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• If you want government to intervene domestically, you’re a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you’re a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you’re a moderate. If you don’t want government to intervene anywhere, you’re an extremist.

  Joseph Sobran

  Funny, Government, Liberty

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  Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

  John Quincy Adams

  Patriotic, Reflection, Political Will

  "American Prohibition Year Book, Volumes 10-12" (p. 111), 1910.

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