Quotes by Politicians - Page 15

Peace at any price.
Alphonse de Lamartine
If the pursuit of peace is both old and new it is also both complicated and simple. It is complicated for it has to do with people and nothing in this universe baffles man as much as man himself.
Adlai Stevenson
The pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
Cicero
Pessimism never won any battle.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared to believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Bruce Barton
Most of us can as we choose make of this world either a palace or a prison.
Sir John Lubbock
Peace is a daily a weekly a monthly process gradually changing opinions slowly eroding old barriers quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace the pursuit must go on.
John F Kennedy
You don't have to have fought in a war to love peace.
Geraldine Ferraro
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of their way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
It takes two to make peace.
John F Kennedy
We merely want to live in peace with all the world to trade with them to commune with them to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Peace like charity begins at home.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Millions for defense but not one cent for tribute.
Charles C. Pinckney
There is Ontario patriotism Quebec patriotism or Western patriotism each based on the hope that it may swallow up the others but there is no Canadian patriotism and we can have no Canadian nation when we have no Canadian patriotism.
Henri Bourassa
The mind supplies the idea of a nation but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.
André Malraux
Swim or sink live or die survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.
John Adams
I am not a Virginian but an American.
Patrick Henry
Patriotism is not short frenzied outbursts of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedicaton of a lifetime.
Adlai Stevenson
Gone - glimmering through the dream of things that were.
Lord Byron
The best prophet of the future is the past.
John Sherman
Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.
Benjamin Disraeli
She walks in beauty Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
Lord Byron
Acting is not very hard. The most important things are to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry I think of my sex life. And if I have to laugh well I think of my sex life.
Glenda Jackson
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.
Lord Byron
Political parties serve to keep each other in check one keenly watching the other.
Henry Clay
There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.
Georges Clémenceau
He disliked emotion not because he felt lightly but because he felt deeply.
John Buchan
The world is a comedy to those who think a tragedy to those who feel.
Horace Walpole
I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy geography natural history and naval architecture navigation commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting poetry music architecture statuary tapestry and porcelain.
John Adams
Fare thee well! and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well.
Lord Byron
Departure should be sudden.
Benjamin Disraeli
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
Winston Churchill
Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses.
Lord Beaverbrook
A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.
Nancy Astor
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
Benjamin Disraeli
Fear drives you and makes you better.
Donna E. Shalala
I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
Cicero
I look forward to growing old and wise and audacious.
Glenda Jackson
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do.
Golda Meir
I want to be able to live without a crowded calendar. I want to be able to read a book without feeling guilty or go to a concert when I like.
Golda Meir
Pioneers may be picturesque figures but they are often rather lonely ones.
Nancy Astor
There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody anywhere anytime.
Calvin Coolidge
We put things in order - God does the rest. Lay an iron bar east and west it is not magnetized. Lay it north and south and it is.
Horace Mann
Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.
Winston Churchill
When Fortune empties her chamberpot on your head smile and say 'We are going to have a summer shower.'
John A. Macdonald
The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
Benjamin Disraeli
Great opportunities to help others seldom come but small ones come daily.
Ivy Baker Priest
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity the most important thing in life is to know when to forgo an advantage.
Benjamin Disraeli
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
Sallust
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity they seem more afraid of life than of death.
James F. Byrnes
It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity.
Arthur Vandenberg
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
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
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Hubert Humphrey
Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different.
Lord Samuel