Quotes by Politicians - Page 29

Old age is by nature rather talkative.
Cicero
Old age especially an honoured old age has so great authority that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.
Cicero
I refuse to admit that I am more than 52 even if that makes my sons illegitimate.
Nancy Lady Astor
Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.
Lord Cecil
I haven't asked you to make me young again. All I want is to go on getting older.
Konrad Adenauer
Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle Old Age a regret.
Benjamin Disraeli
Good counsel has no price.
Guiseppe Mazzini
To make pleasure pleasant shorten.
Charles Buxton
It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.
Cicero
If I were starting life over again I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference to almost any other. The general raising of standards of modern civilization among all groups of people during the past half-century would have been impossible without that spreading of the knowledge of higher standards by means of advertising.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
No man ever listened himself out of a job.
Calvin Coolidge
I remember my father telling me the story of the preacher delivering an exhortation to his flock and as he reached the climax of his exhortation a man in the front row got up and said 'O Lord use me. Use me O Lord - in an advisory capacity!'
Adlai Stevenson
Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.
Benjamin Disraeli
There is no education like adversity.
Benjamin Disraeli
In victory even the cowardly like to boast while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
Sallust
I think the years I have spent in prison have been the most formative and important in my life because of the discipline the sensations but chiefly the opportunity to think clearly to try to understand things.
Jawaharlal Nehru
It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.
Kossuth
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man it is what he wants and must have to be good for anything. Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.
John Neal
An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain - the equality of all men.
Ignazio Silone
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Woodrow Wilson
He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene.
Andrew Marvell
So much to do so little done.
Cecil Rhodes
Get good counsel before you begin: and when you have decided act promptly.
Sallust
Doing what is right isn't the problem it's knowing what is right.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season.
Bette Bao Lord
He will hew the line of right let the chips fall where they may.
Roscoe Conkling
You take people as far as they will go not as far as you would like them to go.
Jeannette Rankin
There is a time for all things a time to preach and a time to pray but those times have passed away there is a time to fight and that time has come!
General Peter Muhlenberg
When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John F Kennedy
The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds.
Woodrow Wilson
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
John F Kennedy
Take time to deliberate but when the time for action arrives stop thinking and go in.
Andrew Jackson
When you appeal to force there's one thing you must never do - lose.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action of one alone.
Charles de Gaulle
I want to see you shoot the way you shout.
Theodore Roosevelt
The fair request ought to be followed by the deed in silence.
Dante Alighieri
The best audience is intelligent well-educated and a little drunk.
Alvin Barkley
If one has to submit it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
Winston Churchill
The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.
Winston Churchill
If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second or even the third place.
Cicero
Genius does what it must talent does what it can.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
Alexander Hamilton
To act with common sense according to the moment is the best wisdom and 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
Sometimes when one person is missing the whole world seems depopulated.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
Sam Rayburn
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
Winston Churchill
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
David Lloyd George
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy
Back of every achievement is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.
Brooks Hays
Do what you can with what you have where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
In esse I am nothing in posse I am everything.
John Adams
There are no credentials. They do not even need a medical certificate. They need not be sound either in body or mind. They only require a certificate of birth -just to prove they are first of the litter. You would not choose a Spaniel on these principles. (On aristocracy)
David Lloyd George
Centuries-old wounds are still raw because they never healed right in the first place. Here is the essential truth. We are better together than we are apart.
Mitch Landrieu
Instead of revering a four-year brief historical aberration that was called the Confederacy we can celebrate all 300 years of our rich, diverse history as a place named New Orleans and set the tone for the next 300 years.
Mitch Landrieu
Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions, and learn to determine the value of your individual and collective action, however directed on material ends, in the light of the ideal which you are supposed to represent. Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
Muhammad Iqbal
Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes....
Barack Obama
We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching.
Paul Tsongas
My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone else. All we want is for that trivial difference to make no difference. What can I say to a man who asks that? All I can do is try to explain to him why he asks the question. You have looked at us for years as different from you that you may never see us really. You don’t understand because you think of us as second-class humans. We have been passive and accommodating through so many years of your insults and delays that you think the way things used to be is normal. When the good-natured, spiritual-singing boys and girls rise up against the white man and demand to be treated like he is, you are bewildered. All we want is what you want, no less and no more. (Chapter 13).
Shirley Chisholm
We cordially believe in the rights of property. We think that normally and in the long run the rights of humanity, coincide with the rights of property... But we feel that if in exceptional cases there is any conflict between the rights of property and the rights of man, then we must stand for the rights of man.
Theodore Roosevelt
There is no Zionism except the rescue of Jews.
Golda Meir