Quotes about Politics
Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
I think people have a need to feel good about the country they live in, but what's happening, I think, is that that need - which is a good thing - is getting manipulated and exploited.
- Ronald Reagan
If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.
- Ronald Reagan
After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.
- Andrew Jackson
We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
- Alexander Hamilton
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
- Adrian Rogers
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
- Thomas Jefferson
A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.
- Franklin Pierce
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
- James Madison
The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn't represent the people. It controls them.
- John Lennon
The spirit of party opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.
- George Washington
Government is not the solution, but rather the cause of our problems.
- Ronald Reagan