Politics quotations

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◆ If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

- Winston Churchill99

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

- John Quincy Adams99

◆ Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

- Alexander Hamilton99

◆ Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

- Winston Churchill99

◆ Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

- Henry A. Kissinger99

◆ I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

- Napoleon Bonaparte99

◆ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

- Aesop99

◆ No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

- Emma Goldman99

◆ I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

- Barry Goldwater99

◆ The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

- H. L. Mencken99

◆ When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

- Edmund Burke99

◆ Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.

- William E. Simon99

◆ The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.

- P. J. O'Rourke99

◆ The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

- Fidel Castro99

◆ Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

- Lord Acton99