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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 Vain hope, to make people happy by politics! - Thomas Carlyle Some have said that it is not the business of private men to meddle with government--a bold and dishonest saying, which is fit to come from no mouth but that of a tyrant or a slave. To say that private men have nothing to do with government is to say that private men have nothing to do with their own happiness or misery; that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be naked or clothed, fed or starved, deceived or instructed, protected or destroyed. - Cato (Marcus Porcius Cato "The Elder") (a/k/a Cato the Censor) In politics nothing is so absurd as rancor. - Count Camillo Benso di Cavour In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight. - Joseph Chamberlain A politician must like lightning melt The very marrow, and not taint the skin; His ways must not be seen. - George Chapman The greatest powers cannot injure a man's character whose reputation is unblemished among his party. - 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope 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) I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce" voting at elections is the best method. [Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio, nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), De Legibus (III, 15) There are no true friends in politics. - Alan Clark A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation. - James Freeman Clarke Party honesty is party expediency. - Steven Grover Cleveland, in a interview in the "New York Commercial Advertiser" It is a condition which confronts us--not a theory. - Steven Grover Cleveland, Annual Message Let it alone. Let it pass by. [Lat., Laissez faire, laissez passer.] - Jean Baptiste Colbert, according to Lord John Russell, see report of his speech in London "Times", Apr. 2, 1840 In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons which are strong. - Charles Caleb Colton Your politicians Have evermore a taint of vanity, As hasty still to show, and boast a plot As they are greedy to contrive it. - Sir William D'Avenant Finality is not the language of politics. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield Party is organized crime. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, in a speech at Oxford The Right Honorable gentleman (Sir Robert Peel) caught the Whigs bathing and walked away with their clothes. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, in a speech in the Hose of Commons Displaying page 2 of 9 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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