Quotes by Politicians - Page 27

I am not now That which I have been.
Lord Byron
Change is inevitable in a progressive society. Change is constant.
Benjamin Disraeli
The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Continuity gives us roots change gives us branches letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.
Pauline R. Kezer
Turbulence is a life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Ramsay Clark
When you're through changing you're through.
Bruce Barton
The basic fact of today is the tremendous.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Everything changes but change itself.
John F Kennedy
Change is the law of life.
John F Kennedy
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Ramsay Clark
The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.
John F Kennedy
Vexed sailors curse the rain For which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
Edmund Waller
Censorship like charity should begin at home but unlike charity it should end there.
Clare Boothe Luce
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
In war events of importance are the result of trivial causes.
Julius Caesar
To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.
Thomas Haliburton
Old Care has a mortgage on every estate And that's what you pay for the wealth that you get.
J. G. Saxe
Gross National Product is our Holy Grail.
Stuart Udall
Corporations cannot commit treason nor be outlawed nor excommunicated for they have no souls.
Edward Coke
Power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
Alexander Hamilton
The business of America is business.
Calvin Coolidge
One man's wage rise is another man's price increase.
Harold Wilson
Pounds are the sons not of pounds but of pence.
Charles Buxton
The forces in a capitalist society if left unchecked tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Jawaharlal Nehru
In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content So we clap on Dutch bottoms just 20%.
George Canning
One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.
Dean Rusk
Let us be French as the Americans are English.
Henri Bourassa
Confederation is only yet in the gristle and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.
John A. Macdonald
Not necessarily conscription but conscription if necessary.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
Whenever the Germans found the Canadian Corps coming into the line they prepared for the worst.
David Lloyd George
I know that Nature designs that this whole continent not merely these thirty-six states shall be sooner or later within the magic circle of the American union.
William Seward
The story of Canada is that if one meeting fails you have another meeting.
Robert Rae
I think a stalwart peasant in a sheepskin coat born on the soil whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations with a stout wife and a half-dozen chickens is good quality.
Clifford Sifton
If ever Confederation fails it will not be because Quebec - the political voice of French Canada - has separated from it. It will be because the way to keep Quebec in it has not been found.
Jean Lesage
We shall be Canadians first foremost and always and our policies will be decided in Canada and not dictated by any other country.
John G. Diefenbaker
The situation is one something like living with your wife. Sometimes it is difficult and even irritating to live with her but it is always impossible to live without her.
Lester Pearson
The twentieth century belongs to Canada.
Wilfrid Laurier
Canadians have been accustomed to define themselves by saying what they are not.
William Kilbourn
I know that through the grace of God I am the founder of Manitoba.
Louis Riel
That one never asks a question unless he knows the answer is basic to parliamentary questioning.
John G. Diefenbaker
Old Tomorrow.
Sir John A. Macdonald
Canadian politics in British Columbia is an adventure on the Prairies a cause in Ontario a business in Quebec a religion in the Maritimes a disease.
Paul St. Pierre
Saskatchewan is much like Texas - except it's more friendly to the United States.
Adlai Stevenson
Canada is not a country for the cold of heart or the cold of feet.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
So long as the majority of Canadians have two countries one here and one in Europe national unity will remain a myth and a constant source of internecine quarrels.
Henri Bourassa
We French-Canadians belong to one country Canada: Canada is for us the whole world: but the English-Canadians have two countries one here and one across the sea.
Wilfrid Laurier
I suppose the half-breeds in Manitoba in 1870 did not fight for two hundred forty acres of land but it is to be understood there were two societies who treated together. One was small but in its smallness it had its rights. The other was great but in its greatness it had no greater rights than the rights of the small because the right is the same for everyone.
Louis Riel
Living next to the United States is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Americans assume Canada to be bestowed as a right and accept this bounty as they do air without thought or appreciation.
Dean Acheson
Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.
Tommy Douglas
No one is the worse for knowing two languages.
Oliver Mowat
That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations as an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.
Winston Churchill
We demand that big business give people a square deal in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honesdy endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.
Theodore Roosevelt
Call on a business man at business times only and on business transact your business and go about your business in order to give him time to finish his busmess.
Duke of Wellington
The way to stop financial "joy-riding" is to arrest the chauffeur not the automobile.
Woodrow Wilson
Don't be humble. You're not that great.
Golda Meir
The nature of business is swindling.
August Bebel
They (corporations) cannot commit treason nor be outlawed nor excommunicated for they have no souls.
Sir Edward Coke
Every man has his price.
Sir Robert Walpole
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
George Washington