Best Politics Quotes
6200 Politics quotes by 2677 unique authors
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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
— Walter Bagehot
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Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
— Russell Baker
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Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.
— Russell Baker
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Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.
— Stanley Baldwin
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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
— Edward Abbey
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
— Douglas Adams
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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
— Franklin P. Adams
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The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all…
— Franklin P. Adams
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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms…
— Henry Adams
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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
— Henry Adams
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Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
— Henry Adams
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Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
— John Perry Barlow
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The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.
— Neal Barnard
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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
— John Adams
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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts…
— John Adams
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Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
— Marion Barry
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
— John Adams
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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger…
— John Adams
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A government of laws, and not of men.
— John Adams
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In politics the middle way is none at all.
— John Adams
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The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.
— John Adams
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Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
— John Quincy Adams
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