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Politics Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
- If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend.
- The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you,…
- It is much easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going.
- Politics, as a trade, finds most and leaves nearly all dishonest.
- My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.
- We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.
- And whereas this House desires to obtain a full knowledge of all the facts which go to establish whether the particular spot of soil which…
- A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.
- The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
- Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
- I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well…
- The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the…
- At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us.…
- What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
- Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things…
- You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
- I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black…
- You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot…
- I can not deny that all may be swept away. Broken by it, I, too, may be; bow to it I never will. The probability…
More Politics Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle