A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
19 sayings from Woodrow Wilson
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
19 more thoughts from Woodrow Wilson
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
5 quotes from Albert Pike
Finality is not the language of politics.
75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli
From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
21 quotes from Jane Austen
In politics nothing is contemptible.
75 views from Benjamin Disraeli
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
58 wisdom & wit from Thomas Carlyle
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
12 wisdom & wit from George MacDonald
It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
8 quotes from Stephen Leacock
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
7 other quotes from William E. Gladstone
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
12 sayings from Frank Zappa
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
12 views from Mao Zedong
Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
12 more quotes from Mao Zedong
Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
75 views from Benjamin Disraeli
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
4 views from Oscar Levant
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
75 quotes from Benjamin Disraeli
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour.
75 other thoughts from Benjamin Disraeli
There is no gambling like politics.
75 wisdom & wit from Benjamin Disraeli
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
24 quotes from Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
24 thoughts from W. C. Fields
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
56 views from Khalil Gibran
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
13 quotes from Dante Alighieri
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
13 more views from Alexander Hamilton
When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
37 wisdom & wit from Edmund Burke
As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
3 views from Pierre Beaumarchais
Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.
3 more views from Edward Kennedy
I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
36 wisdom & wit from Lord Byron
I'm not involved in the politics of religion, but I love what the message is.
8 wisdom & wit from Jane Seymour
If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
9 more thoughts from Barry Goldwater
In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.
9 quotes from Walter Savage Landor
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
24 quotes from Franklin D. Roosevelt
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
12 more quotes from Daniel Webster
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
37 more quotes from Edmund Burke
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
6 other quotes from Jacob Bronowski
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
37 other quotes from Edmund Burke
The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
4 quotes from Konrad Adenauer
The secret of getting things done is to act!
13 quotes from Dante Alighieri
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
10 more sayings from Charles de Secondat
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
31 other quotes from Gertrude Stein
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
22 more quotes from Henry Adams
I have always said I will be in politics to serve as best as I can and it will take me wherever it will take me.
3 more quotes from George Papandreou
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
6 quotes from Harold MacMillan
If nominated, I will not run if elected, I will not serve.
20 quotes from William Tecumseh Sherman
In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled.
3 quotes from George Papandreou
Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
33 quotes from Erma Bombeck
Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
22 quotes from Henry Adams
Politics are not the task of a Christian.
7 more quotes from Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
12 other quotes from George Jean Nathan
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
22 more sayings from Henry Adams
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
22 more quotes from Henry Adams
Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
22 other quotes from Henry Adams
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
22 other views from Henry Adams
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
9 views from Alfred Adler
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
16 views from Erich Fromm
A week is a long time in politics.
3 quotes from Harold Wilson
In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.
11 views from Clare Boothe Luce
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
50 views from Robert Frost
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
105 more quotes from Albert Einstein
Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.
3 other quotes from John Jay Chapman
The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.
11 more thoughts from Clare Boothe Luce
The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.
3 other quotes from John Jay Chapman
They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
11 quotes from Clare Boothe Luce
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
6 views from Grover Cleveland
I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.
70 other quotes from Thomas Jefferson
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
70 sayings from Thomas Jefferson
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
6 views from Leo Rosten
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
10 views from Booker T. Washington
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
70 more views from Thomas Jefferson
Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
16 more wisdom & wit from Otto von Bismarck
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
14 more wisdom & wit from Vladimir Lenin
Politics is not an exact science.
16 wisdom & wit from Otto von Bismarck
Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
70 views from Thomas Jefferson
Politics is the art of the next best.
16 thoughts from Otto von Bismarck
Politics is the art of the possible.
16 views from Otto von Bismarck
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
5 wisdom & wit from Lester B. Pearson
Politics ruins the character.
16 quotes from Otto von Bismarck
The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
16 sayings from Otto von Bismarck
The world is governed by opinion.
11 wisdom & wit from William Ellery Channing
There are no morals in politics there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
14 quotes from Vladimir Lenin
To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
14 thoughts from Vladimir Lenin
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President I'm beginning to believe it.
14 quotes from Clarence Darrow
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
26 quotes from Harry S. Truman
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
11 quotes from John Stuart Mill
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
46 wisdom & wit from John F. Kennedy
Politics have no relation to morals.
23 more wisdom & wit from Niccolo Machiavelli
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
26 more quotes from Harry S. Truman
Half a truth is better than no politics.
52 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.
16 sayings from Hubert H. Humphrey
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
6 more quotes from Mikhail Bakunin
In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.
6 quotes from Catherine the Great
Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
15 more sayings from Orson Welles
Politics is like football if you see daylight, go through the hole.
46 wisdom & wit from John F. Kennedy
The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
5 other thoughts from Theodore White
There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.
5 thoughts from Alastair Campbell
To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
16 other quotes from Hubert H. Humphrey
To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
53 thoughts from Honore de Balzac
We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.
16 quotes from Hubert H. Humphrey
We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.
3 more wisdom & wit from Henry Cabot Lodge
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
10 more sayings from Emma Goldman
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
20 quotes from Christopher Lasch
Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
20 views from Christopher Lasch
Everything is politics.
11 other views from Thomas Mann
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
4 thoughts from Mary McCarthy
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
10 more views from Emma Goldman
Nothing is irreparable in politics.
14 more sayings from Jean Anouilh
Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.
10 quotes from Emma Goldman
The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
20 quotes from Christopher Lasch
The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.
20 wisdom & wit from Christopher Lasch
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
15 thoughts from Reinhold Niebuhr
There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.
10 wisdom & wit from Emma Goldman
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
7 other wisdom & wit from John Quincy Adams
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
3 other quotes from Richard Armour
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
19 quotes from Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
19 more wisdom & wit from E. B. White
In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
4 quotes from C. Northcote Parkinson
In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
19 more wisdom & wit from Alexis de Tocqueville
Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
4 other views from C. Northcote Parkinson
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
2 wisdom & wit from Thurgood Marshall
The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.
2 wisdom & wit from Emmeline Pankhurst
We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
17 other quotes from Calvin Coolidge
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
115 more quotes from George Bernard Shaw
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
5 wisdom & wit from Leonard Bernstein
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
50 quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte
Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.
2 more sayings from Charles Edison
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.
5 thoughts from Maria Montessori
I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.
24 wisdom & wit from Lyndon B. Johnson
If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
5 sayings from Edna Ferber
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
50 sayings from Napoleon Bonaparte
In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
50 other quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte
One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.
24 more views from Lyndon B. Johnson
Politics is the science of urgencies.
2 thoughts from Theodore Parker
The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
20 views from Herbert Hoover
Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
3 wisdom & wit from Robertson Davies
Vote for the man who promises least he'll be the least disappointing.
12 views from Bernard Baruch
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
5 other quotes from Charles Bukowski
You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.
4 sayings from Stanley Baldwin
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
60 sayings from H. L. Mencken
We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.
27 views from Kin Hubbard
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
23 other sayings from T. S. Eliot
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
19 other quotes from H. G. Wells
Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.
6 more quotes from Francis Parker Yockey
Politics makes me sick.
4 views from William Howard Taft
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
5 sayings from Charles Dudley Warner
You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
63 thoughts from Samuel Johnson
In politics the middle way is none at all.
18 more thoughts from John Adams
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
100 thoughts from Mahatma Gandhi
A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
36 quotes from Theodore Roosevelt
An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.
24 views from Adlai E. Stevenson
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
3 other thoughts from Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
3 views from Mario Puzo
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
4 more quotes from A. J. Liebling
I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
18 more views from John Adams
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
18 sayings from John Adams
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
24 more quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
13 sayings from Jean Rostand
It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear...'
6 other quotes from Rutherford B. Hayes
Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
33 more quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower
Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.
29 quotes from Groucho Marx
Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
33 quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
29 other wisdom & wit from Groucho Marx
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
16 wisdom & wit from Paul Valery
The essential ingredient of politics is timing.
2 quotes from Pierre Trudeau
The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
8 more quotes from Alphonse de Lamartine
The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
36 more thoughts from Theodore Roosevelt
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
100 more wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi
We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.
24 other thoughts from Adlai E. Stevenson
A fool and his money are soon elected.
57 other quotes from Will Rogers
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
74 quotes from Winston Churchill
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
57 other wisdom & wit from Will Rogers
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
74 views from Winston Churchill
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
57 quotes from Will Rogers
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
74 other sayings from Winston Churchill
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
98 more wisdom & wit from Mark Twain
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself.
98 quotes from Mark Twain
America's present need is not heroics but healing not nostrums but normalcy not revolution but restoration.
2 other quotes from Warren G. Harding
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
3 more quotes from Spiro T. Agnew
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
14 quotes from Wendell Phillips
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
19 wisdom & wit from Charles de Gaulle
I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
11 quotes from Aneurin Bevan
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
7 quotes from Louis D. Brandeis
If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
57 quotes from Will Rogers
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
19 sayings from Charles de Gaulle
In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
19 other views from Charles de Gaulle
In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
74 quotes from Winston Churchill
It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
14 wisdom & wit from Hedy Lamarr
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
74 quotes from Winston Churchill
Politics is a blood sport.
11 other views from Aneurin Bevan
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
74 quotes from Winston Churchill
Politics is applesauce.
57 other views from Will Rogers
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
39 sayings from Robert Louis Stevenson
Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
19 more thoughts from Charles de Gaulle
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
19 more sayings from Jonathan Swift
The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
57 views from Will Rogers
The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
7 sayings from Louis D. Brandeis
There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
57 wisdom & wit from Will Rogers