Politics Quotes

"Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority."

"Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom – for himself."

Elbert Hubbard

"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock."

"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."

"The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other."

"The problem with political jokes is they get elected."

Henry Cate VII

"Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both commonly succeed, and are right."

"Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."

Henry Adams

"Practical politics consists in ignoring facts."

Henry Adams

"A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country."

Texas Guinan

"The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence."

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

"Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts."

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

"War is the continuation of politics by other means."

Carl von Clausewitz

"In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme."

"The people should fight for their law as for their city wall."

Heraclitus

"Rulers have no authority from God to do mischief."

Jonathan Mayhew

"What is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct."

Thomas Jefferson

"Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody."

Franklin P. Adams

"Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing."

Bernard Baruch

"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."

"The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes."

Benjamin Disraeli

"Justice is truth in action."

Benjamin Disraeli

"The State is a relation of men dominating men."

Max Weber

"Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards."

Max Weber