Politician Quotes - Page 6

• I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.

  Robert Kennedy

  Believe, Government, Long

  Robert F. Kennedy (1968). “A New Day: Robert F. Kennedy”

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• An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Get Well Soon, Health, Italian

  James C. Humes, Benjamin Franklin (1995). “The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: a treasury of more than 900 quotations and anecdotes”, Harpercollins

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• The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

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• you can do anything you set your mind to

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Mind

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• I love my country, not my government.

  Jesse Ventura

  Country, Patriotic, Government

  FaceBook post by Jesse Ventura from Jan 17, 2011

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• Do not fear mistakes.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Fear, Mistake, Founding Fathers Democracy

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• India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.

  Shashi Tharoor

  Country, People, History

  Shashi Tharoor (2005). “Bookless In Baghdad”, p.27, Penguin Books India

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• No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.

  Booker T. Washington

  Food, Men, Thinking

  W. E. B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington (2012). “Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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• A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Witty, Clothes

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• Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely, very calmly, but nevertheless, state them openly.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Success, Leadership

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Aug 01, 2013

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• Therefore the best fortress is to be found in the love of the people, for although you may have fortresses they will not save you if you are hated by the people.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Love, Hate, People

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.69, Race Point Publishing

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• No, you can't deny women their basic rights and pretend it's about your 'religious freedom'. If you don't like birth control, don't use it. Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Freedom, Women

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• The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant in the history of mankind to be rejected as mere illusion. There seems to be no reason, then, to accept the normal level of human experience as fact and reject its other levels as mystical and emotional.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Religious, Acceptance, Emotional

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2000). “The religious thought in Islam”

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• Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

  Jim Ryun

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

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• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  "Twenty Sermons". Book by Phillips Brooks, p. 330, 1886.

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• He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.

  Solon

  Leadership, Learning, Knowing

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• The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.

  Julian Bond

  Freedom, Equality, Rights

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• Peace - the word evokes the simplest and most cherished dream of humanity. Peace is, and has always been, the ultimate human aspiration. And yet our history overwhelmingly shows that while we speak incessantly of peace, our actions tell a very different story.

  Javier Perez de Cuellar

  Dream, Peace, War

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• We have no eternal allies, and we have not perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.

  Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

  Enemy, Allies, Politics

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• If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.

  Tony Benn

  Money, People, Political

  "Sicko". Documentary, Drama, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• Democracy needs support and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Democratic nations should come together in an association designed to help each other and promote what is a universal value - democracy.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Teamwork, Helping Others, Democracies Have

  Benazir Bhutto (1989). “Speeches and Statements: Apr. 2-Nov. 14, 1989”

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• The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.

  Norman Thomas

  Freedom, Names, Usa

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Marriage orients men and women toward the future, asking them not just to commit to each
  other but to plan, to earn, to save, and to devote themselves to advancing their children's prospects.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Family, Marriage, Children

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• I have no Napoleonic dream. I'm just hard-working and pragmatic.

  Roman Abramovich

  Motivational, Dream, Perseverance

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