Quotes by Politicians - Page 19

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I not only use all the brains I have but all I can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson
I've had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.
Gerald Ford
Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. But then he has much to be modest about.
Winston Churchill
The highest intellects like the tops of mountains are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
To persevere in one's duty and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
George Washington
Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right it's ended up not being right.
Mario Cuomo
Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart-it's all a man has.
Hubert H. Humphrey
A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain.
Llewelyn Powers
Statistics are no substitute for judgement.
Henry Clay
No man was ever great without a touch of divine afflatus.
Cicero
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.
Sir William Blackstone
In an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
Machiavelli
Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing. Advance with it!
Guiseppe Mazzini
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
Dante Alighieri
Tolerance is a tremendous virtue but the immediate neighbours of tolerance are apathy and weakness.
Sir James Goldsmith
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religion but nearly all religions come from that hope.
Charles J. Ingersoll
No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.
Cicero
The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
William McKinley
Never let me hear that foolish word again.
Mirabeau
What is human is immortal!
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run though not to soar.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of wha. I do not know.
Cicero
Ignorance never settles a question.
Benjamin Disraeli
The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom but set no limits on his stupidity - and that's just not fair.
Konrad Adenauer
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Cicero
Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing and doing it assiduously.
Thomas Haliburton
Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.
Cardinal de Retz
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.
Winston Churchill
My health is good it's my age that's bad.
Roy Acuff
The age of chivalry has gone the age of humanity has come.
Charles Sumner
I respect only those who resist me but cannot tolerate them.
Charles de Gaulle
Abandon hope all ye who enter here.
Dante Alighieri
We all live under the same sky but we don't all have the same horizon.
Konrad Adenauer
To the sick while there is life there is hope.
Cicero
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.
Václav Havel
Honor begets honor trust begets trust faith begets faith and hope is the mainspring of life.
Henry L. Stimson
Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
John F Kennedy
Hope is the poor man's bread.
Gary Herbert
There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
Clare Boothe Luce
The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone but that life is not worth living without it.
Harvey Milk
We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.
John F Kennedy
He who does not hope to win has already lost.
Jose Joaquin Olmedo
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance but an unsafe friend.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.
A.P. Herbert
When rogues fall out honest men get into their own.
Sir Matthew Hale
I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles the character of an "Honest Man."
George Washington
Honor lies in honest toil.
Grover Cleveland
No person was ever honoured for what he received. Honour has been the reward for what he gave.
Calvin Coolidge
Admire exult despise laugh weep - for here There is such matter for all feelings: - Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.
Lord Byron
The Family of Man is more than three billion strong. It lives in more than one hundred nations. Most of its members are not white. Most of them are not Christians. Most of them know nothing about free enterprise or due process of law or the Australian ballot.
John F Kennedy
Limited in his nature infinite in his desires man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
Alphonse de Lamartine
The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I my lords am on the side of the angels.
Benjamin Disraeli
The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.
Joseph Stalin
Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
Winston Churchill
The economic interpretation of history does not necessarily mean that all events are determined solely by economic forces. It simply means that economic facts are the ever recurring decisive forces the chief points in the process of history.
Edward Bernstein
Assassination has never changed the history of the world.
Benjamin Disraeli
All history is a lie!
Sir Robert Walpole
For a man's home is his castle.
Sir Edward Coke