American politics Quote by John Lewis

“Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.”

— Ambrose Bierce

“In politics, victory goes to those with cunning, mettle and deviousness, not those who have facts and principles on their side.”

— Milo Yiannopoulos

“We must fight for our country and forget our differences. There can be but two parties: the party of patriots and the party of…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

“In general, the country is wise, but the political parties are not. It is these, and only these, that we have to fear. It…

— Adolphe Thiers

“Politics is merely war by other means. -an old Andorian saying”

— David Mack

“[Politics] is always a means of conquering others and exercising power over them.”

— Jacques Ellul

“There are no lasting victories in politics, there is only the remorseless grinding forward of events.”

— Robert Harris

“A political battle is merely a skirmish fought with muskets; a philosophical battle is a nuclear war.”

— Ayn Rand

“prodemocratic parties can avoid all alliances with antidemocratic parties and candidates.”

— Steven Levitsky

“Politics must drive military strategy as strategy drives tactics. Only when politics fail do we fight.”

— B.V. Larson

“All concepts of politics, of whatever kind, are about conflict──how to contain it, or abolish it.”

— Ralph Miliband

“Whatever the liberal mood, the task of containing and utilizing conflict was never over, just as the task was never over of resisting power.…

— Edmund Fawcett