Politic Quotes
44 quotes by 40 authors
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
— B R Ambedkar
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Courtesy is the politic witchery of great personages.
— Baltasar Gracian
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The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited, if there is…
— Milton Friedman
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There is nothing new in state interventionism. It is as old and reactionary as societal organization itself. Always, when it permeates the body politic, it…
— Spruille Braden
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If any of us hopes to survive, she must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive…
— June Jordan
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If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash.
— George Washington
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If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent all nations, kindreds…
— Frederick Douglass
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Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important…
— Bill Moyers
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King George III may have been a greedy ‘control freak,’ but at least he was a Christian. The United States is being run by a…
— Larry Klayman
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Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The position of Prussia in Germany will not be determined by its liberalism but by its power ... Prussia must concentrate its strength and hold…
— Otto von Bismarck
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Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal.
— Carlos Fuentes
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How did an allegedly free people spawn a vast, rampant cuttlefish of dominion with its tentacles in every orifice of the body politic?
— P.J. O'Rourke
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I want to get rid of the Indian problem. [...] Our objective is to continue until there is not a single Indian in Canada that…
— Duncan Campbell Scott
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Apathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny.
— Laurence Overmire
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Slumism is the pent-up anger of people living on the outside of affluence. Slumism is decay of structure and deterioration of the human spirit. Slumism…
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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Among the cancers devouring the American body politic, one of the most virulent involves liberals who play the race card as carelessly as children playing…
— Deroy Murdock
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A college should feel alarmed rather than pleased if it graduates nothing but good citizens. For when the body politic is composed of nothing but…
— George Boas
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A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within....for the traitor appears not to be a traitor...he rots…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every…
— Henry Ward Beecher
Who Wrote These Politic Quotes
40 authors contributed a total of 44 Politic Quotes, led by these top contributors: