Quotes by Politicians - Page 26

One man with courage makes a majority.
Andrew Jackson
I have often though morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice.
Leon Blum
You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.
Jawaharlal Nehru
The truth will set you free but first it will make you miserable.
James A. Garfield
As a rule what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.
Julius Caesar
Audacity more audacity always audacity.
Georges Jacques Danton
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must- in spite of personal consequences in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all morality.
John F Kennedy
Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
Winston Churchill
Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.
Winston Churchill
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Winston Churchill
Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount.
Clare Boothe Luce
In politics guts is all.
Barbara Castle
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill
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.
John F Kennedy
If the chief party whether it be the people or the army or the nobility which you think most useful and of most consequence to you for the conservation of your dignity be corrupt you must follow their humor and indulge them and in that case honesty and virtue are pernicious.
Machiavelli
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
We may live without friends we may live without books But civilized man cannot live without cooks.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
What is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause but what they say about their opponents.
Robert F. Kennedy
Constitutions should consist only of general provisions the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
Alexander Hamilton
Every man in it is a great man an orator a critic a statesman and therefore every man upon every question must show his oratory his criticism and his political abilities.
John Adams
He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.
Lord Byron
I came I saw I conquered.
Julius Caesar
Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell!
Lord Byron
Be courteous to all but intimate with few and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First let her think she's having her own way. And second let her have it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill
Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
Benjamin Disraeli
Common sense is very uncommon.
Horace Greeley
Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In communism inequality springs from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.
Proudhon
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
Dante Alighieri
The principle of neutrality ... has increasingly become an obsolete conception and except under very special circumstances it is an immoral and shortsighted conception.
John Foster Dulles
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
Aneurin Bevan
We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.
Margaret Chase Smith
The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.
Bess Myerson
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous you get knocked down by traffic from both sides.
Margaret Thatcher
Sometimes success is due less to ability than zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.
Charles Buxton
In war there is no substitute for victory.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Victory at all costs victory in spite of all terror victory however long and hard the road may be for without victory there is no survival.
Winston Churchill
Poverty is uncomfortable as I can testify: but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself.
James A. Garfield
Even now we can draw back. But once we cross that little bridge we must settle things by the sword.
Julius Caesar
More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
Benjamin Disraeli
Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
James A. Garfield
Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.
William E. Gladstone
Nations like individuals live and die but civilization cannot die.
Guiseppe Mazzini
How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?
Charles de Gaulle
Always remember that you are an Englishman and therefore have drawn first prize in the lottery of life.
Cecil Rhodes
The human race has improved everything except the human race.
Adlai Stevenson
Man is not the creature of circumstances Circumstances are the creatures of men.
Benjamin Disraeli
Circumstances alter cases.
Thomas Haliburton
Christians have burned each other quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.
Lord Byron
Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.
Benjamin Disraeli
His Christianity was muscular.
Benjamin Disraeli
I do not choose to run for President in 1928.
Calvin Coolidge
A little curly-headed good-for-nothing And mischief-making monkey from his birth.
Lord Byron
If you think about what you ought to do for other people your character will take care of itself.
Woodrow Wilson
Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
Adlai Stevenson
Character is what God and the angels know of us reputation is what men and women think of us.
Horace Mann
I'm not hard I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.
Margaret Thatcher
He has not a single redeeming defect.
Benjamin Disraeli
And say to all the world "This was a man!"
Julius Caesar