Best Political Wisdom
7295 Political quotes by 3342 unique authors
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The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
— Wernher von Braun
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I first got involved with ending world hunger, and I got hip to the facts about it - what a huge problem it was and…
— Jeff Bridges
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Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.
— David Brin
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Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.
— David Brinkley
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Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.
— David Brinkley
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School boards are, for the most part ,made up of political wannabes who see a board seat as a stepping stone for political office, or…
— Eli Broad
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No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
— Jacob Bronowski
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Political elections are not life and death.
— Rita Mae Brown
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A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.
— Harry Browne
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As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a…
— Jackson Browne
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Have you ever seen a candidate talking to a rich person on television?
— Art Buchwald
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The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.
— Lenny Bruce
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Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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The truth is, of course, that history is not completed in modern commerce any more than philosophy is perfected in political economy. In other words,…
— James Buchan
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The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.
— James Buchanan
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A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in…
— Warren Buffett
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There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal.
— Charlotte Bunch
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
— Edmund Burke
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
— Edmund Burke
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
— Edmund Burke
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
— Edmund Burke
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial…
— Edmund Burke
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Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
— William S. Burroughs
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