Able Quote by Frederick Scott Oliver

Is it possible to be anything in this country without being a politician?

— Martin Van Buren

No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or…

— James Harrington

The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

— George Bernard Shaw

There are very few so foolish that they had not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.

— Thomas Hobbes

There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments and regimes.

— Svetlana Alliluyeva

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only…

— John Galsworthy

For there are very few so foolish who would not rather govern themselves than be governed by others.

— Thomas Hobbes

Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.

— Hermann Hesse

Dalai Lama is transforming those criteria - and the whole way of conducting politics. He's conducting politics in a much deeper way than most…

— Pico Iyer

Although Christianity has never been the guarantee of a democratic state anywhere in the world, no democracy has ever thrived successfully for any period…

— Theodore White

He who loves not his country, can love nothing

— Lord Byron