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Politics Quotes by Hubert H. Humphrey
- To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
- The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.
- A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
- Never answer a question from a farmer.
- Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government.…
- Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy.
- I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.
- We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.
More Politics Quotes
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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
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — 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