Quotes by Politicians - Page 18

You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Robert F. Kennedy
For life in general there is but one decree: youth is a blunder manhood a struggle old age a regret.
Benjamin Disraeli
I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
Theodore Roosevelt
We are all born for love it is the principle of existence and its only end.
Benjamin Disraeli
It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
Adlai Stevenson
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty the drama of human life would be destroyed.
Winston Churchill
The great business of life is to be to do to do without and to depart.
John Morley
Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism the way you play it is free will.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught Hell for.
Earl Warren
1 have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty and business liberty and every other kind of liberty in the phrase that is common in the sporting world "A free field and no favor."
Woodrow Wilson
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Winston Churchill
Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
Harold Macmillan
All free men wherever they may live are citizens of Berlin. And therefore as a free man I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner.'
John F Kennedy
We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.
Cicero
The tree of liberty grows only when watered by the blood of tyrants.
Bertrand Barere
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
John Philpot Curran
Give me liberty or give me death.
Patrick Henry
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Hubert Humphrey
Let every nation know whether it wishes us well or ill that we shall pay any price bear any burden meet any hardship support any friend oppose any foe in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John F Kennedy
Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents.
Viscount Samuel
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest no domination. We seek no indemnities for ourselves no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely give. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and freedom of nations can make them.
Woodrow Wilson
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai Stevenson
I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as self-governing people to hear everything relevant.
John F Kennedy
We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want...everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear... anywhere in the world.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Let the word go forth from this time and place to friend and foe alike that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century tempered by war disciplined by a hard and bitter peace proud of our ancient heritage - and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. Let every nation know whether it wishes us well or ill that we shall pay any price bear any burden meet any hardship support any friend oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1 000 days nor in the life of this administration nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms though arms we need - not as a call to battle though embattled we are - but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in and year out "rejoicing in hope patient in tribulation"- a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny poverty disease and war itself. And so my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country . My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
John F Kennedy
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence conservatism distrust of the people tempered by fear.
William E. Gladstone
A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.
Carter Glass
Every woman's man and every man's woman.
Julius Caesar
When we think we lead we most are led.
Lord Byron
Increased means and increased leisure are the two civi-lizers of man.
Benjamin Disraeli
I've got to follow them - I am their leader.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin
A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
Charles de Gaulle
If I advance follow me! If I retreat cut me down! If I die avenge me!
Benito Mussolini
Follow me if I advance kill me if I retreat revenge me if I die!
Ngo Dinh Diem
Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.
Jan Masaryk
Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism pride hardness and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him indeed they will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
Charles de Gaulle
I have no family. My only responsibility is the welfare of Quebec. I belong to the province.
Maurice Duplessis
Winston Churchill - fifty per cent genius fifty per cent bloody fool.
Clement Attlee
With a good conscience our only sure reward with history the final judge of our deeds let us go forth to lead the land we love asking His blessing and His help but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.
John F Kennedy
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles but today it means getting along with people.
Indira Gandhi
When you come into the presence of a leader of men you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him.
Woodrow Wilson
Our wrangling lawyers are so litigious and busy here on earth that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter some of them in hell.
Henry Burton
After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth.
Grover Cleveland
Reason is the life of the law nay the common law itself is nothing else but reason. The law which is perfection of reason.
Sir Edward Coke
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.
Theodore Roosevelt
The law of England is a very strange one it cannot compel anyone to tell the truth. . . . But what the law can do is to give you seven years for not telling the truth.
Lord Darling
When you have no basis for an argument abuse the plaintiff.
Cicero
Far more has been accomplished for the welfare and progress of mankind by preventing bad actions than by doing good ones.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
A truly American sentiment recognises the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Grover Cleveland
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
Benjamin Disraeli
A long long kiss a kiss of youth and love.
Lord Byron
I would remind you that extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that when nations are strong they are not always just and when they wish to be just they are no longer strong.
Winston Churchill
Come lay thy head upon my breast And I will kiss thee into rest.
Lord Byron
Give your decision never your reasons your decisions may be right your reasons are sure to be wrong.
Lord Mansfield
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
Woodrow Wilson
I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
Patrick Henry
The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth - truth which tends to make mankind wiser and thus happier.
Horace Greeley
The newspapers! Sir they are the most villainous - licentious - abominable - infernal - not that I ever read them - no - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.
R. B. Sheridan
Whether on the scaffold high. Or on the battle-field we die Oh what matter when for Erin dear we fall.
T. D. Sullivan