Quotes by Politicians - Page 87

Any philosophy, whether of a religious or political nature - and sometimes the dividing line is hard to determine - fights less for the negative destruction of the opposing ideology than for the positive promotion of its own. Hence its struggle is less defensive than offensive. It therefore has the advantage even in determining the goal, since this goal represents the victory of its own idea, while, conversely,it is hard to determine when the negative aim of the destruction of a hostile doctrine may be regarded as achieved and assured. For this reason alone, the philosophy's offensive will be more systematic and also more powerful than the defensive against a philosophy, since here, too, as always, the attack and not the defence makes the decision. The fight against a spiritual power with methods of violence remains defensive, however, until the sword becomes the support,the herald and disseminator, of a new spiritual doctrine.
Adolf Hitler
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
Woodrow Wilson
Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.
Vladimir Lenin
To study philosophy is nothing but to prepare one’s self to die.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
Marquis de Sade
The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned
Antonio Gramsci
Philosophy is common sense with big words.
James Madison
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery
Dante Alighieri
Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle.
Vladimir Lenin
Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
Leon Trotsky
The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.
Frédéric Bastiat
The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
Leon Trotsky
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
Vladimir Lenin
If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!
Adolf Hitler
Fuck! Is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff?
Marquis de Sade
Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
George W. Bush
When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.
Winston S. Churchill
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Ronald Reagan
This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read.
Winston S. Churchill
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
Gideon J. Tucker
An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it.
Winston S. Churchill
I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?
Ronald Reagan
When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine
Margaret Thatcher
The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.
John Bingham
I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.
Andrew Jackson
I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
Ronald Reagan
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
Winston S. Churchill
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Winston S. Churchill
Take bread away from me, if you wish,take air away, butdo not take from me your laughter.Do not take away the rose,the lance flower that you pluck,the water that suddenlybursts forth in joy,the sudden waveof silver born in you.My struggle is harsh and I come backwith eyes tiredat times from having seenthe unchanging earth,but when your laughter entersit rises to the sky seeking meand it opens for me allthe doors of life.My love, in the darkesthour your laughteropens, and if suddenlyyou see my blood stainingthe stones of the street,laugh, because your laughterwill be for my handslike a fresh sword.Next to the sea in the autumn,your laughter must raiseits foamy cascade,and in the spring, love,I want your laughter likethe flower I was waiting for,the blue flower, the roseof my echoing country.Laugh at the night,at the day, at the moon,laugh at the twistedstreets of the island,laugh at this clumsyfool who loves you,but when I openmy eyes and close them,when my steps go,when my steps return,deny me bread, air,light, spring,but never your laughter.
Pablo Neruda
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.
Winston S. Churchill
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Winston S. Churchill
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston S. Churchill
My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.
Winston S. Churchill
Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.
Benjamin Franklin Wade
My CreedI do not choose to be a common man,It is my right to be uncommon … if I can,I seek opportunity … not security.I do not wish to be a kept citizen.Humbled and dulled by having theState look after me.I want to take the calculated risk;To dream and to build.To fail and to succeed.I refuse to barter incentive for a dole;I prefer the challenges of lifeTo the guaranteed existence;The thrill of fulfillmentTo the stale calm of Utopia.I will not trade freedom for beneficenceNor my dignity for a handoutI will never cower before any masterNor bend to any threat.It is my heritage to stand erect.Proud and unafraid;To think and act for myself,To enjoy the benefit of my creationsAnd to face the world boldly and say:This, with God’s help, I have doneAll this is what it meansTo be an Entrepreneur.
Dean Alfange
All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.
Winston S. Churchill
I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.
Madeleine K. Albright
If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.
Harvey Milk
Live life as though nobody is watching, and express yourself as though everyone is listening.
Nelson Mandela
Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
America is too great for small dreams.
Ronald Reagan
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
John F Kennedy
I learned a lot from the stories my uncle, aunts and grandparents told me: that no one is perfect but most people are good; that people can’t be judged by their worst or weakest moments; that harsh judgements can make hypocrites of us all; that a lot of life is just showing up and hanging on; that laughter is often the best, and sometimes the only response to pain.Perhaps most important, I learned that everyone has a story – of dreams and nightmares, hope and heartache, love and loss, courage and fear, sacrifice and selfishness. All my life I’ve been interested in other people’s stories. I wanted to know them, understand them, feel them. When I grew up into politics, I always felt the main point of my work was to people a chance to have better stories. - Page 15, Paragraph 5, ‘My Life’ by Bill Clinton. –Hard cover version-
Bill Clinton
It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.
Adolf Hitler
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
Horace Mann
My young sisters, we have such hope for you. We have such great expectations for you. Don't settle for less than what the Lord wants you to be...Give me a young woman who loves home and family, who reads and ponders the scriptures daily, who has a burning testimony of the Book of Mormon... Give me a young woman who is virtuous and who has maintained her personal purity, who will not settle for less than a temple marriage, and I will give you a young woman who will perform miracles for the Lord now and throughout eternity.
Ezra Taft Benson
The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
John F Kennedy
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
John Lubbock
The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.
Ronald Reagan
I AM THE MASTER OF MY FATE AND THE CAPTAIN OF MY DESTINY.
Nelson Mandela
Bebek berjalan berbondong-bondong, akan tetapi burung elang terbang sendirian.
Sukarno
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi
It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.
Benito Mussolini
Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation
Nelson Mandela
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
Woodrow Wilson