Quotes by Politicians - Page 3

War is the national industry of Prussia.
Mirabeau
It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.
David Ormsby Gore
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
Georges Clémenceau
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
Winston Churchill
War is much too important a matter to be left to the generals.
Georges Clémenceau
We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight in France we shall fight on the seas and oceans we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air we shall defend our island whatever the cost may be we shall fight on the beaches we shall fight on the landing grounds we shall fight in the fields and in the streets we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender.
Winston Churchill
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say: "This was their finest hour."
Winston Churchill
Do not let us speak of darker days let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
Winston Churchill
Virtue is an angel but she is a blind one and must ask of Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.
Horace Mann
Honor is the reward of virtue.
Cicero
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
George Washington
There are few virtues which the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
Winston Churchill
You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.
Benito Mussolini
To the victors belong the spoils.
Andrew Jackson
He who hates vice hates men.
John Morley
By union the smallest states thrive by discord the greatest are destroyed.
Sallust
Then join in hand brave Americans all! By uniting we stand by dividing we fall.
John Dickinson
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
George Washington
Unlimited power corrupts the possessor and this I know that where law ends there tyranny begins.
Lord Chatham
We shall return to proven ways - not because they are old but because they are true.
Barry Goldwater
For my part whatever anguish of spirit it may cost I am willing to know the whole truth - to know the worst and provide for it.
Patrick Henry
When one has no design but to speak plain truth he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.
Richard Steele
It makes all the difference in the world whether we put truth in the first place or in the second place.
John Morley
The greater the truth the greater the libel.
Lord Ellenborough
Time is precious but truth is more precious than time.
Benjamin Disraeli
Trust in God and keep your powder dry.
Oliver Cromwell
Government is a trust and the officers of the government are trustees and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
Henry Clay
Travel teaches toleration.
Benjamin Disraeli
If one had but a single glance to give the world one should gaze on Istanbul.
Alphonse de Lamartine
Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.
Benjamin Disraeli
It is intolerance to speak of toleration. Away with the word from the dictionary!
Mirabeau
What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar.
Thomas R. Marshall
Here's a sigh to those who love me And a smile to those who hate And whatever sky's above me Here's a heart for every fate.
Lord Byron
O temporal O mores! O what times! what morals!
Cicero
Time is money.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.
Sir William Blackstone
From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.
Dante Alighieri
We cannot do everything at once but we can do something at once.
Calvin Coolidge
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
Bernadette Devlin
It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.
William Cobbett
One only gets to the top rung of the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time and suddenly all sorts of powers all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think "Well I'll have a go too."
Margaret Thatcher
One third of the people of the world are asleep at any given moment. The other two thirds are awake and probably stirring up trouble somewhere.
Dean Rusk
Any man may make a mistake none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.
Cicero
The power of Thought - the magic of the Mind!
Lord Byron
But what minutes! Count them by sensation and not by calendars and each moment is a day.
Benjamin Disraeli
Belief is harder to shake than knowledge.
Adolf Hitler
Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.
Idi Amin
A library is thought in cold storage.
Viscount Herbert Samuel
A poor woman from Manchester on being taken to the seaside is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.
John Lubbock
Roll on thou deep and dark blue ocean - roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain Man marks the earth with ruin - his control Stops with the shore.
Lord Byron
Don't let it be forgot That once there was a spot -For one brief shining moment That was known as Camelot.
John F Kennedy
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Ronald Reagan
I beg leave to assure the Congress that no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness. I do not wish to make any profit from it.
George Washington
I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a president and I think I'll go along with them.
Calvin Coolidge
I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
In America any boy may become president and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.
Adlai Stevenson
The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete the patience of a mother the endurance of an early Christian.
Harold Wilson
If you are as happy my dear sir on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home you are the happiest man in the country.
James Buchanan
The four most miserable years of my life . . .
John Adams
Had I been chosen president again I am certain I could not have lived another year.
John Adams