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Politics Quotes by Harold MacMillan
- If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians.
- It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats.
- You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest.
- As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original…
- At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
- After long experience of politics, I have never found that there is any inhibition caused by ignorance as regards criticism.
- I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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- Under every stone lurks a politician. — Aristophanes
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
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- 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