Quotes by Politicians - Page 12

Whatever little we have gained we have gained by agitation while we have uniformly lost by moderation.
Daniel O'Connell
I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.
Lady Nancy Astor
I will sit down now but the time will come when you will hear me.
Benjamin Disraeli
Never tell your resolution beforehand.
John Selden
A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom a republic is a raft which will never sink but then your feet are always in water.
Fisher Ames
It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard against the oppression of its rulers but to guard one part of society against the injustice of the other part.
Alexander Hamilton
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
George Washington
One religion is as true as another.
Henry Burton
My creed is this: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to help make others so.
Charles J. Ingersoll
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
John Buchan
Yes I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentlemen were brutal savages in an unknown land mine were priests in the Temple of Solomon.
Benjamin Disraeli
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
John Morley
We Jews have a secret weapon in our struggle with the Arabs - we have no place to go.
Golda Meir
While I cannot be regarded as a pillar I must be regarded as a buttress of the church because I support it from outside.
Lord Melbourne
I respect only those who resist me but cannot tolerate them.
Charles de Gaulle
There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.
Dante Alighieri
Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.
Cicero
If I go to heaven I want to take my reason with me.
Charles J. Ingersoll
I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat.
Winston Churchill
If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second or even the third place.
Cicero
Genius does what it must talent does what it can.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare but I can write a book by me.
Sir Walter Raleigh
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
John Morley
If you expect perfection from other people your whole life is a series of disappointments grumbling and complaints. If on the contrary you pitch your expectations low taking folks as the inefficient creatures which they are you are frequently surprised by having them perform better than you had hoped.
Bruce Barton
Vexed sailors curse the rain for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
Edmund Waller
In science read by preference the newest works in literature the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
I don't see what's wrong with giving Bobby a little experience before he starts to practise law.
John F Kennedy
A thick skin is a gift from God.
Konrad Adenauer
While you're saving your face you're losing your ass. Never trust a man whose eyes are too close to his nose. I never trust a man unless I've got his pecker in my pocket. Better inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
Adlai Stevenson
India is a geographical term. It is no more a United Nation than the Equator.
Winston Churchill
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Benjamin Disraeli
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Winston Churchill
The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The object of punishment is prevention from evil it never can be made impulsive to good.
Horace Mann
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
Horace Mann
I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet.
Cicero
You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.
John Morley
I come from a State that raises corn and cotton and cock-leburs and Democrats and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me.
Willard D. Vandiver
Property is theft.
Proudhon
Undertake not what you cannot perform but be careful to keep your promise.
George Washington
Statistics are no substitute for judgement.
Henry Clay
It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared either in scope or in rapidity.
Charles de Gaulle
The century on which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.
Henry A. Wallace
America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.
Lyndon Johnson
What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises others make the decision.
Jeannette Rankin
When you approach a problem strip yourself of preconceived opinions and prejudice assemble and learn the facts of the situation make the decision which seems to you to be the most honest and then stick to it.
Chester Bowles
There is no other solution to a man's problems but the day's honest work the day's honest decisions the day's generous utterance and the day's good deed.
Clare Boothe Luce
They are proud in humility proud in that they are not proud.
Henry Burton
They pick a President and then for four years they pick on him.
Adlai Stevenson
My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.
George Washington
Freedom of conscience of education of speech of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.
F. D. Roosevelt
Freedom of the press is the staff of life for any vital democracy.
Wendell L. Willkie
I would rather be right than President.
Henry Clay
To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
George Washington
There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent.
Charles Curtis
There is a time for all things a time to preach and a time to pray but those times have passed away there is a time to fight and that time has come!
General Peter Muhlenberg
This is what I found out about religion: It gives you courage to make decisions you must make in a crisis and then the confidence to leave the result to a Higher Power. Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
A Chinese Christian prayed every day .... "Lord reform Thy world beginning with me."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Pray not for lighter burdens but for stronger backs.
Theodore Roosevelt