Quotes about Politics
Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
- Abbie Hoffman
Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
- Booker T. Washington
The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.
- Alexander Hamilton
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
- Aristotle
All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants.
- Alexander Hamilton
Our hope is not in the man we put in the White House but in the Man we put on the Cross.
- Rick Warren
Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.
- Ayn Rand
We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.
- Will Rogers
No reasonable man, much less a Christian, can or should take part in the efforts of Communists and Socialists
- CF Walther
If anybody ever dares to compare Bob Dole to Clinton, then they're comparing a criminal to an honest man.
- Sonny Bono
It is vain to say that enlightened statesmen will always be able to adjust their interests. Enlightened men will not always be at the helm.
- James Madison