Quotes by Politicians - Page 4

A president's hardest task is not to do what's right but to know what's right.
Lyndon B. Johnson
When the president does it that means it is not illegal.
Richard Nixon
The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise it can be experienced - it can not be told.
Calvin Coolidge
An eminent American is reported to have said to friends who wished to put him forward 'Gentlemen let there be no mistake. I should make a good president but a very bad candidate.'
James Bryce
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present we shall find we have lost the future.
Winston Churchill
I try to learn from the past but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.
Donald Trump
Take in the ideas of the day drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow time enough to consider it when it becomes today.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The past is our very being.
David Ben-Gurion
The good old days were never that good believe me. The good new days are today and better days are coming tomorrow. Our greatest songs are still unsung.
Hubert H. Humphrey
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead you never look back.
Ann Richards
Judgement comes from experience and great judgement comes from bad experience.
Robert Packwood
The past is the best prophet of the future.
Lord Byron
The past is the best way to suppose what may come.
Lord Halifax
I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
Patrick Henry
The "good old times"-all times when old are good.
Lord Byron
Oh what times! Oh what standards!
Cicero
The illusion that times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages.
Horace Greeley
Then comes Winston with his hundred horsepower mind and what can I do?
Stanley Baldwin
The home of everyone is to him his castle and fortress as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose.
Edward Coke
Yesterday is not ours to recover but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Lyndon B. Johnson
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
We need not be afraid of the future for the future will be in our own hands.
Thomas E. Dewey
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure and generally create ourselves.
Benjamin Disraeli
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
Winston Churchill
The future comes one day at a time.
Dean Acheson
We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan
I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion I think it must be gratitude.
Benjamin Disraeli
After listening to thousands of pleas for pardon to offenders I can hardly recall a case where I did not feel that I might have fallen as my fellow man had done if I had been subjected to the same demoralizing influences and pressed by the same temptations.
Horatio Seymour
Never give in never give in never never never never - in nothing great or small large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
Winston Churchill
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Horace Mann
The authority of those who profess to teach is often a positive hindrance to those who desire to learn.
Cicero
Death and taxes are inevitable.
Thomas Haliburton
The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
William Lyon Mackenzie King
The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to get the most feathers with the least hissing.
Jean Baptiste Colbert
Genius does what it must and talent does what it can.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
A schoolboy's tale the wonder of an hour.
Lord Byron
Without tact you can learn nothing.
Benjamin Disraeli
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
Dean Acheson
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
Charles de Gaulle
A timid question will always receive a confident answer.
Lord Darling
All our geese are swans.
Henry Burton
There is in superstition a senseless fear of God.
Cicero
Religion is not removed by removing superstition.
Cicero
A leading authority is anyone who has guessed right more than once.
Frank A. Clark
The penalty of success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
Lady Nancy Astor
Victory at all costs victory in spite of all terror victory however long and hard the hard may be for without victory there is no survival.
Winston Churchill
Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
Arthur Wellesley
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat but they are no less difficult.
Winston Churchill
Continuous effort-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill
The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli
You can imprison a man but not an idea. You can exile a man but not an idea. You can kill a man but not an idea.
Benazir Bhutto
The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.
Cardinal de Retz
The Department of Justice is committed to asking one central question of everything we do: What is the right thing to do? Now that can produce debate and I want it to be spirited debate. I want the lawyers of America to be able to call me and tell me: Janet have you lost your mind?
Janet Reno
The lesser evil is also evil.
Naomi Mitchison
It is no use saying "we are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing knowing that is not enough that you have got to have hard work and a sense of purpose.
Margaret Thatcher
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
It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks.
Theodore Roosevelt
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy
Destiny is not a matter of chance it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan