Saturday, September 30, 2017

17 Quotable Quotes on Politics


Great words, not mine: 1)Man is by nature a political animal.-----Aristotle. 2)The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy, that is, the search for a moral justification for selfishness.-----John Kenneth Galbraith. 3)In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.-----Franklin Delano Roosevelt. 4)The secret of politics? Make a treaty with Russia.-----Otto von Bismark. 5)Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can walways write a book.-----Ronald Reagan. 6)A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.-----Theodore Roosevelt. 7)If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.-----Noam Chomsky. 8)A fool and his money are soon elected.-----Will Rogers. 9)If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there'd be a shortage of sand.-----Milton Freeman. 10)Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.-----Maajid Nawaz 11)Liberalism is trust of the people tempered in prudence. Conservatism is distruct of the people tempered by fear.-----Dwight Gavid Eisenhower. 12)In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.-----J. William Fulbright. 13)Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.-----Charles de Gaulle. 14)One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.-----Donald J. Trump. 15)Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were are member of Congress, but I repeat myself.-----Mark Twain. 16)Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.-----Aristotle. 17)I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.-----James Baldwin.

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