Politics Quote by Richard Phillips

“Men seeking power only acknowledged fact insofar as it supported their ambitions.”

— Curtis Craddock

“Remember, democracy is directing a theatre of unwilling participants, not leading an army of loyal followers.”

— James Maxwell

“Someone who spoke English had been listening to his speeches of promised freedom and would have realized they were the drunken lies of men…

— Bill Carter

“It was necessary that millions of men in whose hands lay the real power -- the soldiers who fired, or transported provisions and guns…

— Leo Tolstoy

“But so long as I lived under a system of Government based on force and voluntarily partook of the many facilities and privileges it…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“If given a choice between a potentially great hardship and doing nothing, people gravitated toward what was most familiar and comfortable. That was why…

— Michael J. Sullivan

“What manner of men had lived in those days...who had so eagerly surrendered their sovereignty for a lie and a delusion? Why had they…

— Taylor Caldwell

“With all of their backbreaking hard work, they felt it unfair to have such a significant portion of the fruits of their labors confiscated…

— Ben Carson

“Those who are to conduct a war cannot in the nature of things, be proper or safe judges, whether a war ought to be…

— James Madison

“Through our intentions, a place no power can influence, we have the power to oppose.”

— Bryant McGill

“...decisions were often made because of ideology and politics. As a result many wrong-headed actions were taken, ones that did not solve the problem…

— Joseph E. Stiglitz

“All those things happened before the reforms that ended bureaucratic practices. And those reforms made it possible for decisive men to take charge and…

— Andreas Christensen