Political Quotations

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-->Abraham Lincoln:
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
-->Abraham Lincoln:
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. He who molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or decisions possible or impossible to execute.
Adlai Stevenson:
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
-->Adlai Stevenson:
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. [1952]
Aesop:
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Albert Einstein:
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
-->Aldous Huxley:
At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.
-->Alex Carey:
... the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: The growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.
Australian social scientist, quoted by Noam Chomsky in World Orders Old and New
-->Anais Nin:
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
Angela Davis:
The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.
Ann Richards:
I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
Aristotle:
Man is by nature a political animal.
-->Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.:
What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.