More than any single action by the government since the end of the war, this one would change the face of America… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
If you will investigate all the Indian troubles, you will find that there is something wrong of this nature at the bottom… — George Crook Copy Share Image
Personally, I think government is a tool, like a hammer. You can use a hammer to build or you can use a… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pat Robertson has written in a book a few years ago that we should have a world government, but only when the… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
In its exterior relations - abroad - this government is the sole and exclusive representative of the united majesty, sovereignty, and power… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
“Critical thinking is essential to make sense of our world, especially with advertisers and politicians all telling us loudly that they know… — Helen Czerski Copy Share Image
I support people having a gun in public full stop, not just in your home. We don't have the right to bear… — Vince Vaughn Copy Share Image
“My generals should be like bull terriers on chains, and they should want war, war, war ... But what happens now? I… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Yet the basic fact remains: every regulation represents a restriction of liberty, every regulation has a cost. That is why, like marriage… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
It is a misfortune incident to republican government, though in a less degree than to other governments, that those who administer it,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
America became a great nation early on not because it was flooded with politicians, but because it was flooded with people who… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain has… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
Dalai Lama is transforming those criteria - and the whole way of conducting politics. He's conducting politics in a much deeper way… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Look, the Mexican border wall is necessary. That's not just politics, and yet it is good for the heart of the nation… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
People from all over the world came to America and assimilated into a single culture rooted in the founding, which is rooted… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“New political systems and philosophies were imported into the Near East under the general term democracy and grafted artificially into a society… — Gerald De Gaury Copy Share Image
Generally, it's not good to be engaged directly with the political system unless you are qualified. It's a very depressing business, the… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
“The true state will be oriented against both capitalism and communism. At its center will stand a principle of authority and a… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
I wish that Google would realize its own power in the cause of free speech. The debate has been often held about… — Jeff Jarvis Copy Share Image
Today many politicians suggest that where the federal government does not act, there must be anarchy. That view is odd, blinkering out… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
“Parliament will also struggle with Shakespeare. Rappers stutter too when they flirt. The palms of poised politicians sweat. Police officers fart. Princesses… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
Placing a time limit on affirmative action would in all likelihood blunt the orchestrated politics of controversy that now bedevils it. And… — Orlando Patterson Copy Share Image
We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I really rebel against this idea that politics has to be a place full of ego and where you're constantly focused on… — Jacinda Ardern Copy Share Image
I think I've had a long, distinguished career in public service. It just goes to show you what some politicians will do.… — Raymond Kelly Copy Share Image
Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
The 16th Amendment corroded the American concept of natural rights; ultimately reduced the American citizen to a status of subject, so much… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
If someone dares question the Administrations leadership or integrity, they drape a flag over the latest mess and cry treason!. Ironically and… — Jules Carlysle Copy Share Image
Handwritten political posters - often composed in an artless and unadorned style, usually just words on plain white paper - were ubiquitous… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
... feminist solidarity rooted in a commitment to progressive politics must include a space for rigorous critique, for dissent, orwe are doomed… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“Not everyone would see a passive public as necessarily a bad thing. There are benefits to limiting political engagement to a minority… — Cherian George Copy Share Image
ANARCHISM:The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. ...… — Gerald Holton Copy Share Image
We see that pedantry has never been held in such esteem for the government of the world as in our times, and… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
“The president is a nationalist, which is not at all the same thing as a patriot. A nationalist encourages us to be… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
I think democracies are prone to inflation because politicians will naturally spend [excessively] - they have the power to print money and… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
[A]ll power is originally vested in, and consequently derived from, the people. That government is instituted and ought to be exercised for… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky ["Letters," December 3], repudiating the very idea that he and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I don't think that people are disinterested or uninterested in politics. I think very often they are disengaged from the formal political… — John Bercow Copy Share Image
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