Quotes by Politicians - Page 11

Public opinion is a compound of folly weakness prejudice wrong feeling right feeling obstinacy and newspaper paragraphs.
Robert Peel
Too often we . . . enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F Kennedy
I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon Voltaire or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.
Talleyrand
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Hubert Humphrey
Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
Benjamin Disraeli
The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.
Adlai Stevenson
Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different.
Lord Samuel
At the end of a long introduction: You omitted perhaps one thing - that in 1974 I had a hemorrhoidectomy.
Howell Heflin
My father gave me these hints on speech making: Be sincere ... be brief ... be seated.
James Roosevelt
A good speech like a woman's skirt should be long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest. I have been asked to give my address in the remaining five minutes. That I can do! Here it is: 10 Carlton Gardens London England.
Lord Balfour
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
Horace Mann
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing it's when you've had everything to do and you've done it.
Margaret Thatcher
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
Horace Mann
There is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work the day's honest decisions the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed.
Clare Boothe Luce
Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!
Alphonse de Lamartine
Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!
Winston Churchill
You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Charles Buxton
We must use time as a tool not as a crutch.
John F Kennedy
Lost yesterday somewhere between sunrise and sunset two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.
Horace Mann
Thrift of time will repay you in afterlife with a usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams waste of it will make you dwindle alike in intellectual and moral stature beyond your darkest reckoning.
William Gladstone
I must govern the clock not be governed by it.
Golda Meir
The laboring man and the artificer knows what every hour of his time is worth and parts not with it but for the full value.
Lord Clarendon
The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts bestowed for the good of the country and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.
John Caldwell Calhoun
The things we see are the mind's best bet as to what is out front.
Adelbert Ames
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Margaret Thatcher
You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
If I had refused to institute a negotiation or had not persevered in it I would have been degraded in my own estimation as a man of honor.
John Adams
God Almighty hates a quitter.
Samuel Fessenden
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
Josephus Daniels
Never give in! Never give in! Never never never never.... In nothing great or small large or petty never give in except to convictions or honor and good sense!
Winston Churchill
It's not worthy of human beings to give up.
Alva Reimer Myrdal
We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air we shall defend our island whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches we shall fight on the landing grounds we shall fight in the fields and in the streets we shall fight in the halls. We shall never surrender.
Winston Churchill
When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Continuous efforts-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill
I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.
Clare Boothe Luce
For the night Shows stars and women in a better light.
Lord Byron
It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word.
Lord Byron
The sports page records people's accomplishments the front page usually records nothing but man's failures.
Earl Warren
Don't be afraid to make a mistake your readers might like it.
William Randolph Hearst
Never exaggerate your faults your friends will attend to that.
Robert C. Edwards
Laws die books never.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The English never draw a line without blurring it.
Winston Churchill
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
Sallust
In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor.
F. D. Roosevelt
Neutrality as a lasting principle is an evidence of weakness.
Louis Kossuth
I love not man the less but nature more.
Lord Byron
Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace.
Ronald Reagan
The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.
Cicero
God's miracles are to be found in nature itself the wind and waves the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically but behind them is the hand of God.
Ronald Reagan
The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.
Eric Johnston
Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.
Horace Walpole
Soprano basso even the contralto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.
Lord Byron
As you go along your road in life you will if you aim high enough also meet resistance ... but no matter how tough the opposition may seem have courage still-and persevere.
Madeleine Albright
At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power finally rests with the most abandoned.
Georges Jacques Danton
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. But when it comes it moves irresistibly.
Vladimir Lenin
Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away.
Lord Byron
A reformer is a guy who rides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat.
James J. Walker
If we should promise people nothing better than only revolution they would scratch their heads and say 'Isn't it better to have good goulash?'
Nikita Khrushchev
I survived. (J'ai vecu.)
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes
A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton