Politician Quotes - Page 10

• The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels.

  Bridget of Sweden

  Bible, Religious, Peace

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• The rich will strive to establish their dominion and enslave the rest. They
  always did...they always will. They will have the same effect here as
  elsewhere, if we do not, by the power of government, keep them in their proper
  spheres.

  Gouverneur Morris

  Power, Government, Political

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• The most important thing that I know about living is love. Nothing surpasses the benefits received by a human being who makes compassion and love the objective of his or her life. For it is only by compassion and love that anyone fulfills successfully their own life’s journey. Nothing equals love.

  Sargent Shriver

  Love, Life, Sympathy

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• I have learned that a woman can be a fighter, a freedom fighter, a political activist, and that she can fall in love, and be loved, she can be married, have children, be a mother... Revolution must mean life also; every aspect of life.

  Leila Khaled

  Love, Life, Marriage

  "'I made the ring from a bullet and the pin of a hand grenade'". Interview with Katharine Viner, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2001.

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• We will send ships and Marines as soon as possible for the protection of American life and property.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Marine, America, Usa

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• I firmly believe you never should spend your time being the former anything.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Time

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• More courage is required to forgive than is required to take up arms.

  Jose Ramos-Horta

  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Courage

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• Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

  Winston Churchill

  Being Strong, Encouraging, Courage

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.395, Da Capo Press

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• You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our noblest symbol of excellence. They are a tribute to the democratic philosophy. They are our aspirations and our name. They are the essence of Greekness.

  Melina Mercouri

  Philosophy, Mean, Patriotic

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• My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit back.

  Louis Riel

  Art, Sleep, Years

  "The Defiant Imagination: Why Culture Matters". Book by Max Wyman, p. 85, 2004.

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• If you chase two rabbits,
  you catch none.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Editors

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• A firm that continues to employ a previously successful strategy eventually and inevitably falls victim to a competitor.

  William Cohen

  Fall, Successful, Competition

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• Who doesn’t respect and value his past, is not worth the honour of the present, and has no right to a future

  Jozef Pilsudski

  Respect, Future, Past

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• Government is best which governs least

  Thomas Paine

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Government

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• The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.

  Nelson Mandela

  Worry, Vices, Ordinary

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• The lead singer of Creed says he won’t endorse President Obama. Well that settles it -- Obama will not win the 1998 presidential election.

  Stephen Colbert

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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• The Peace Corps represents some, if not all, of the best virtues in this society. It stands for everything that America has ever stood for. It stands for everything we believe in and hope to achieve in the world.

  Sargent Shriver

  Hope, Believe, America

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• The path of those who preach love, and not hatred, is not easy. They often have to wear a crown of thorns.

  Nelson Mandela

  Love, Hatred, Crowns

  Twitter post from Feb 23, 2017

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• You can't change Washington from the inside. You can only change it from the outside.

  Barack Obama

  Change, America, Usa

  "Obama: 'You can't change Washington from the inside'". www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2012.

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• I'm convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children; a minimum of government authority.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Good Life, Happy Life

  Ronald Reagan (1983). “A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan, 1961-1982”, Gateway Books

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• Whether you change the linen or stitch up wounds, cook the food or dispense the medicines, it is in your hands to help build a public service worthy of all those who gave their lives for the dream of democracy

  Nelson Mandela

  Dream, Food, Medicine

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.320, Pan Macmillan

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• Once it gets to a point where it becomes a matter of life and death to occupy a position of leadership or not, with an eye on future opportunities, therein lies the danger.

  Kgalema Motlanthe

  Leadership, Lying, Eye

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• If gay marriage was OK ... then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men; or indeed three men and a dog.

  Boris Johnson

  Dog, Gay, Men

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• They motivate us to play, be affectionate, seek adventure and be loyal.

  Tom Hayden

  Friendship, Dog, Adventure

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• In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but your posterity will look back to yours as the golden age, and envy those who first burst into this silent, splendid Nature.

  James Bryce

  Dream, Nature, Europe

  James Bryce (1889). “The American Commonwealth”

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