Quotes for All
\”War,\” says Machiavelli, \”ought to be the only study of a prince;\” and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. \”He ought,\” says this great political doctor, \”to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans.\” A meditation on the … Read more
I have one great political idea… That idea is an old one. It is widely and generally assented to; nevertheless, it is very generally trampled upon and disregarded. The best expression of it, I have found in the Bible. It is in substance, \”Righteousness exalteth a nation – sin is a reproach to any people.\” … Read more
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. Frederic Bastiat
Politicians had always viewed environmental issues as narrow things of no great political consequence. Sort of NIMBY issues. A big part of the reason was that the groups that cared about wilderness didn’t talk with the groups that were trying to stop freeways from cutting through inner cities, and neither of them talked to the … Read more
We’re in a political depression – a great political depression Chuck Todd
A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected. Carl Sandburg
Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage. Carl Bernstein
The two great political parties of the nation have existed for the purpose, each in accordance with its own principles, of undertaking to serve the interests of the whole nation. Their members of the Congress are chosen with that great end in view. Calvin Coolidge
I mean, in the campaign of ’24 and in ’28 and ’32, you know, Eleanor Roosevelt insists that women have equal floor space. And this is a great victory over time. Then she wants women represented in equal numbers as men. And she wants the women to name the delegates. And the men want to … Read more
All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations. Billy Bragg