Quotes by Politicians - Page 6

Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.
John Morley
All the great things are simple and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom justice honor duty mercy hope.
Winston Churchill
The first law of war is to preserve ourselves and destroy the enemy.
Mao Tse-Tung
A speech does not need to be eternal to be immortal.
Muriel Humphrey
One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears.
Dean Rusk
I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.
Calvin Coolidge
Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.
Henry Burton
I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something God recognizes I will do - and I have done it - and God forgives me for it.
Jimmy Carter
It may be the cock that crows but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
Margaret Thatcher
Some leaders are born women.
Geraldine Ferraro
Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
James A. Garfield
Man is not the creature of circumstances circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents and man is more powerful than matter.
Benjamin Disraeli
Faced with crisis the man of character falls back on himself.
Charles de Gaulle
Do not rely completely on any other human being however dear. We meet all of life's greatest tests alone.
Agnes Macphail
Women share with men the need for personal success even the taste for power and no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through the achievements of surrogates whether husbands children or merely role models.
Elizabeth Dole
A secure individual... knows that the responsibility for anything concerning his life remains with himself-and he accepts that responsibility.
Harry Browne
He is a self-made man and worships his creator.
John Bright
Not being beautiful was the true blessing. ... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
Golda Meir
Remember Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did but she did it backwards and in high heels.
Faith Whittlesey
The precept "Know yourself " was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind but likewise that we might understand our own worth.
Cicero
Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.
Golda Meir
I believe that in our constant search for security we can never gain any peace of mind until we are secure in our own soul.
Margaret Chase Smith
Leaders can be moral-and they should be moral-without imposing their morality on others.
Geraldine Ferraro
The only people who would be in government are those who care more about people than they do about power.
Millicent Fenwick
You've got to ensure that the holders of an opinion however unpopular are allowed to put across their points of view.
Betty Boothroyd
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside where it functions best.
Margaret Thatcher
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
Indira Gandhi
Be always sure you're right then go ahead.
Davy Crockett
The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
William Jennings Bryan
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks on great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
Cicero
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.
Bruce Barton
I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.
Nancy Astor
I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
Nancy Astor
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
John Morley
I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare but I can write a book by me.
Sir Walter Raleigh
I care not what others think of what I do but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character!
Theodore Roosevelt
Blessed is he who expects no gratitude for he shall not be disappointed.
William Bennett
Let us not forget that among [women's] rights is the right to speak freely.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
I'm a vague conjunctured personality more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.
Woodrow Wilson
We judge ourselves by our motives and others by their actions.
Dwight Morrow
An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too and that maketh him very wary.
Lord Halifax
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity they seem more afraid of life than of death.
James F. Byrnes
If you want total security go to prison. There you're fed clothed given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking ... is freedom.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I am sorry to say there is too much point to the wise crack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
John F Kennedy
That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.
Sir William Blackstone
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Benjamin Disraeli
I believe in recovery and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.
Ann Richards
We must dare and dare again and go on daring.
Georges Jacques Danton
If man is not ready to risk his life where is his dignity?
André Malraux
Nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
Benjamin Disraeli
To gain that which is worth having it may be necessary to lose everything else.
Bernadette Devlin
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.
James A. Garfield
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
Jeannette Rankin
I compensate for big risks by always doing my homework and being well-prepared. I can take on larger risks by reducing the overall risk.
Donna E. Shalala
There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent creative personality for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.
Shirley Chisholm
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps.
David Lloyd George
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!
Delores Ibarruri
To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.
John Lubbock
What is necessary is never a risk.
Cardinal de Retz