Quotes by Politicians - Page 25

It would be folly to argue that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can and do make grave mistakes. They know it they pay the penalty but compared with the mistakes which have been made by every kind of autocracy they are unimportant.
Calvin Coolidge
The world must be made safe for democracy.
Woodrow Wilson
All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
Alfred E. Smith
I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
Woodrow Wilson
While democracy must have its organization and controls its vital breath is individual liberty.
Charles Evans Hughes
He who desires naught will always be free.
E. R. Lefebvre Laboulaye
Ail hope abandon ye who enter here.
Dante Alighieri
Despair is the conclusion of fools.
Benjamin Disraeli
It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Winston Churchill
People often say that in a democracy decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing.
Walter H. Judd
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
Giuseppe Garibaldi
I let the American people down and I have to carry that burden for the rest of my life. My political life is over. I will never again have an opportunity to serve in any official position. Maybe I can give a little advice from time to time.
Richard Nixon
Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant but they are incidents to a free and constitutional country and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.
Benjamin Disraeli
Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
Alexander Hamilton
False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
Horace Mann
Frank and explicit - this is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the mind of others.
Benjamin Disraeli
A delusion a mockery and a snare.
Lord Denman
A national debt if it is not excessive will be to us a national blessing.
Alexander Hamilton
Death so called is a thing which makes men weep And yet a third of life is pass'd in sleep.
Lord Byron
When Andrew Jackson died someone asked a friend if he thought Old Hickory would go to heaven. 'He will if he wants to ' was the reply. On his death bed Disraeli declined a visit from Queen Victoria. 'No it is better not' he said 'she would only ask me to take a message to Albert.' I am a broken machine. I am ready to go.
Woodrow Wilson
On with the dance! Let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn when Youth and Pleasure meet.
Lord Byron
No man in his senses will dance.
Cicero
Every crowd has a silver lining.
P.T. Barnum
When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John F Kennedy
Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.
Arthur Balfour
Faced with crisis the man of character falls back on himself.
Charles de Gaulle
The crisis you have to worry about most is the one you don't see coming.
Mike Mansfield
Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.
Benjamin Disraeli
Prisons don't rehabilitate they don't punish they don't protect so what the hell do they do?
Jerry Brown
I wish I was as sure of anything as Macaulay is of everything.
William Windham
It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
If you want to make enemies try to change something.
Woodrow Wilson
Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums and those in cemeteries.
Everett M. Dirksen
To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
Woodrow Wilson
True consistency that of the prudent and the wise is to act in conformity with circumstances and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.
John C. Calhoun
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill
The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.
William H. Seward
He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.
Anwar Sadat
I will not change just to court popularity.
Margaret Thatcher
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything ... or nothing.
Lady Astor
We must beware of needless innovations especially when guided by logic.
Winston Churchill
The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.
Golda Meir
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Hereditary boundsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?
Lord Byron
Since the general civilization of mankind I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
James Madison
No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.
Vladimir Lenin
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Winston Churchill
A man of courage is also full of faith.
Cicero
A change of heart is the essence of all other change and it has brought about me a reeducation of the mind.
Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
On many of the great issues of our time men have lacked wisdom because they have lacked courage.
William Benton
If you are scared to go to the brink you are lost.
John Foster Dulles
I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Courage is the virtue which champions the cause of right.
Cicero
Courage is fire and bullying is smoke.
Benjamin Disraeli
Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.
Charles Kennedy
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
Sallust
Courage is ... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
David Ben-Gurion
Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety.
Viscount Cecil
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
Bernadette Devlin
There is in addition to a courage with which men die a courage by which men must live.
John F Kennedy