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The White Plume of Navarre. - Unattributed Author, name given to the New York "Tribune" during the U.S. Civil War Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. - Henry Brooks Adams Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law. - Fisher Ames, Speech All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies. - attributed to John Arbuthnot, in "Life of Emerson", p. 165 Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class. - Aristotle Man is by nature a civic animal. - Aristotle, Politics (I, 2) Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy. - Lloyd Bentsen, referring to vice-presidential nominee Dan Quayle during a 1988 debate He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match. - Aneurin Bevan In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at. - Christian Nestell Bovee Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity. - Vera Brittain, Rebel Passion Listen! John A. Logan is the Head Centre, the Hub, the King Pin, the Main Spring, Mogul, and Mugwump of the final plot by which partisanship was installed in the Commission. - Isaac Hill Bromley, Editorial in the New York Tribune It is necessary that I should qualify the doctrine of its being not men, but measures, that I am determined to support. In a monarchy it is the duty of parliament to look at the men as well as at the measures. - Lord Henry Peter Brougham (Brougham and vaux), in the House of Commons We are Republicans, and don't propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion. - Samuel Dickinson Burchard, One of the Deputation visiting Mr. Blaine You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe. - Edmund Burke, Reflexions on the Revolution in France (vol. III, p. 277) Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures. - Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontent Protection and patriotism are reciprocal. - John Caldwell Calhoun, in a speech delivered in the House of Representatives Away with the cant of "Measures not men!"--the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing. - George Canning, in a speech against the Addington Ministry If churches want to play the game of politics, let them pay admission like everyone else. - George Carlin In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight. - Joseph Chamberlain A minister who moves about in society is in a position to read the signs of the times even in a festive gathering, but one who remains shut up in his office learns nothing. - Duc de Choiseul, in Jack F. Bernard's "Talleyrand" (1973) One of the greatest Romans, when asked where were his politics, replied, "Imperium et libertas." That would not make a bad programme for a British Ministry. - Sir Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill, in a speech at Randolph House, London The Duty of an Opposition is to oppose. - quoted by Sir Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill Here the two great interests Imperium et Libertas, res olim insociabiles (saith Tacitus), began to incounter each other. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (3), Divi Britannici (p. 849) Displaying page 1 of 6 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6
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