Politics Quotes

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

Party honesty is party expediency.

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.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, 'We want our country back!' Republicans, Democrats, Independents, will not go down the path of Greece, we will not go quietly into the night.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.