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Politics Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
- ...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.
- I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.
- There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I hail as a…
- The settler and pioneer have at bottom had justice on their side; this great continent could not have been kept as nothing but a game…
- No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy of a bad, while telling him not to defend…
- Those who oppose all reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life brings us nothing…
- The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
- When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'
- A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
- Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.
- The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from…
- The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
- Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.
- The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.
- Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords.
- Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to…
- Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and…
- Our government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests of cotton and…
- I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all…
- We need to make our political representatives more quickly and sensitively responsive to the people whose servants they are.
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