954 private quotes tagged politics

“Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.” — Albert Einstein

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“Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.” — Winston Churchill

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“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.” — Charles Bukowski

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“Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.” — Mark Twain

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“Politics is the art of controlling your environment.” — Hunter S. Thompson

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“Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.” — Aristotle

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“Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.” — Khalil Gibran

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“King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.” — Thomas Paine

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“Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.” — John F. Kennedy

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“You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.” — Samuel Johnson

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“A fool and his money are soon elected.” — Will Rogers

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“Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.” — Nelson Mandela

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“Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.” — Edmund Burke

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“Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.” — Aristotle

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“Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.” — Gore Vidal

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“It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.” — Will Rogers

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“Politics is applesauce.” — Will Rogers

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“Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.” — Aristotle

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“If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?” — George Orwell

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