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Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position
that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular;
but one must take it BECAUSE it is right.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions
are in almost every case gotten at second hand,
and without examination
- Mark Twain
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous.
In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
- Winston Churchill
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Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
- John F. Kennedy
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone
I love not to mix with it.
- Thomas Jefferson
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up
in our politics and say definite things which mean something,
or whether we shall always go on using generalities
to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
(and hence clamorous to be led to safety)
by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins,
all of them imaginary.
- H. L. Mencken
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and,
in its true sense, a noble one.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
- Winston Churchill
I was losing interest in politics,
when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again.
What I have done since then is pretty well known.
- Abraham Lincoln
In war, you can only be killed once,
but in politics, many times.
- Winston Churchill
I am never going to have anything more to do
with politics or politicians.
When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely
to writing and painting.
- Winston Churchill
Politics are very much like war.
We may even have to use poison gas at times.
- Winston Churchill
I'm always rather nervous about how you talk
about women who are active in politics,
whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
- John F. Kennedy
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics
do not know what religion is.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen
who would protect the rights and privileges of free people
and who would preserve what is
good and fruitful in our national heritage.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
- Albert Einstein
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles,
the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
- Everett Dirksen
You can lead a man to Congress,
but you can't make him think.
- Milton Berle
I wanted to see exotic Vietnam, the jewel of Southeast Asia.
I, uh, I wanted to meet interesting
and stimulating people of an ancient culture,
and kill them.
- the movie Full Metal Jacket
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
- Will Rogers
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
- Harry S. Truman
You can put wings on a pig,
but you don't make it an eagle.
- William J. Clinton
Almost any sect, cult, or religion will
legislate its creed into law
if it acquires the political power.
- Robert A. Heinlein
DON'T get officious.
You're not yourself when you're officious -
That is the curse of a government job.
- the movie Harold and Maude (1971)
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job:
it's a depression when you lose yours.
- Harry S. Truman
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God
is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
- Thomas Jefferson
The claim "I was only following orders" has been used
to justify too many tragedies in our history.
- Captain Picard of the television series
STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Advertisements contain the only truths
to be relied on in a newspaper.
- Thomas Jefferson
Anyone who isn't confused,
really doesn't understand the situation.
- Edward R. Murrow
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack
that life is extinct on other planets
because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
- John F. Kennedy
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
- H. L. Mencken
It is dangerous to be right in matters
on which the established authorities are wrong.
- Voltaire
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The lawyer's truth is not Truth,
but consistency or a consistent expediency.
- Henry David Thoreau
The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
- Thomas Jefferson
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality
by contact with this great novel land of yours
which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
- Winston Churchill
God has cared for these trees,
saved them from drought, disease, avalanches,
and a thousand tempests and floods.
But he cannot save them from fools.
- John Muir
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
- Albert Einstein
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out
in a war fought with the atomic bomb.
Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
- Albert Einstein
The natural cause of the human mind
is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
- Thomas Jefferson
Do not speak to me of rules.
This is war! This is not a game of cricket!
- from the movie The Bridge On The River Kwai
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion
will legislate its creed into law
if it acquires the political power to do so,
and will follow it by suppressing opposition,
subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young,
and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.
- Robert Heinlein
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert,
to fleece the people.
- Abraham Lincoln
A fool and his money are soon elected.
- Will Rogers
A conservative is a man who is
too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
- Elbert Hubbard
Interesting.
You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries,
but you imprison those who employ it privately.
- the character Spock in the television series Star Trek
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president,
but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
- John F. Kennedy
Credulity - willingness to accept
unsupported statements without demanding proof -
is the greatest ally of the dictator and the demagogue.
- Arthur C. Clarke
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
- Arabic Proverb and Chinese Proverb
Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The inherent vice of capitalism
is the unequal sharing of blessings;
the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
- Winston Churchill
Suppose you were an idiot,
and suppose you were a member of Congress;
but I repeat myself.
- Mark Twain
Speeches that are measured by the hour
will die with the hour.
- Thomas Jefferson
Politicians and diapers need to be changed regularly,
usually for the same reason.
- Anonymous
If you want total security, go to prison.
There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on.
The only thing lacking... is freedom.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
For those who do not think,
it is best at least to rearrange
their prejudices once in a while.
- Luther Burbank
Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic,
for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
- Robert Lindner
The man who reads nothing at all
is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
- Thomas Jefferson
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely
only after they have exhausted all other alternatives.
- Abba Eban
Although prepared for martyrdom,
I preferred that it be postponed.
- Winston Churchill
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
What do I think of Western civilization?
I think it would be a very good idea.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people
by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie"
until you can find a rock.
- Will Rogers
Credit is a system whereby a person who can't pay
gets another person who can't pay
to guarantee that he can pay.
- Charles Dickens
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