Quotes by Politicians - Page 20

When great changes occur in history when great principles are involved as a rule the majority are wrong.
Eugene V. Debs
Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
Lord Acton
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Abba Eban
After 15 years of work I have achieved as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical willpower the unity of the German nation and have freed it from the death sentence of Versailles.
Adolf Hitler
History is the devil's scripture.
Lord Byron
Hail ye heroes! heaven-born band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.
Joseph Hopkinson
Don't be so humble. You're not that great.
Golda Meir
A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.
Woodrow Wilson
Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.
Shirley Chisholm
What we frankly give forever is our own.
George Granville
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin Disraeli
Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
Baroness Edith Summerskill
To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian-to help them is.
Frank A. Clark
Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.
Ann Richards
We ought to be doing all we can to make it possible for every child to fulfill his or her God-given potential.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
When a person is down in the world an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
Dante Alighieri
I'm a competitive person but I have never understood people's competitiveness at the expense of their colleagues.
Geraldine Ferraro
Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.
Woodrow Wilson
The oppressed never free themselves-they do not have the necessary strengths.
Clare Boothe Luce
Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell.
Lord Byron
God helps those who help themselves.
Algernon Sidney
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.
James A. Garfield
Maid of Athens ere we part Give oh give me back my heart!
Lord Byron
Thank heaven I have given up smoking again! . . . God! I feel fit. A different man. Irritable moody depressed rude perhaps . . . but the lungs are fine.
A.P. Herbert
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill never own it to yourself. Illess is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Hatred is settled anger.
Cicero
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Cicero
I believe that a worthwhile life is defined by a kind of spiritual journey and a sense of obligation.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
No social system will bring us happiness health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
Clement R. Attlee
There are four things a child needs: plenty of love nourishing food regular sleep and lots of soap and water.
Ivy Baker Priest
All who would win joy must share it happiness was born a twin.
Lord Byron
We women ought to put first things first. Why should we mind if men have their faces on the money as long as we get our hands on it?
Ivy Baker Priest
Happiness lies in the joy of achieve ment and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind speak of color.
Horace Mann
Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George Washington
Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
William Bennett
When you're in your nineties and looking back it's not going to be how much money you made or how many awards you've won. It's really what did you stand for. Did you make a positive difference for people?
Elizabeth Dole
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
The best philosophy is to do one's duties to take the world as it comes submit respectfully to one's lot and bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it whatever it is.
Horace Walpole
To live as fully as completely as possible to be happy ... is the true aim and end to life.
Llewelyn Powers
Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.
Roy M. Goodman
I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
Cicero
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead it means that the dead are living.
Harold Macmillan
Laws are never as effective as habits.
Adlai Stevenson
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing.
Lady Astor
When you are accustomed to anything you are estranged from it.
George Cabot Lodge
A precedent embalms a principle.
Benjamin Disraeli
You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.
Harriet Woods
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Cicero
There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.
Cicero
Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal though no more though fallen great!
Lord Byron
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
Charles de Gaulle
Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of things that are to be.
Adlai Stevenson
If I am a great man then a good many of the great men of history are frauds.
Bonar Law
The perfection preached in the Gospels never yet built up an Empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of optimism pride hardness and cunning. But all these things will be forgiven him indeed they will be regarded as high qualities if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends.
Charles de Gaulle
We are all worms but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.
Winston Churchill
It seems to me that government is like a pump and what it pumps up is just what we are a fair sample of the intellect the ethics and the morals of the people no better no worse.
Adlai Stevenson
The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
George Washington
When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Winston Churchill