Quotes by Politicians - Page 18

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
[T]he vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
Lyndon B. Johnson
There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction. As Police Commissioner it was my duty to deal with all kinds of squalid misery and hideous and unspeakable infamy, and I should have been worse than a coward if I had shrunk from doing what was necessary; but there would have been no use whatever in my reading novels detailing all this misery and squalor and crime, or at least in reading them as a steady thing. Now and then there is a powerful but sad story which really is interesting and which really does good; but normally the books which do good and the books which healthy people find interesting are those which are not in the least of the sugar-candy variety, but which, while portraying foulness and suffering when they must be portrayed, yet have a joyous as well as a noble side.
Theodore Roosevelt
Some men are born to be good some born to be badAs for me I only came with just a pen ‘n’ a pad.
Carlos Salinas
614246"... in an airport in '64, Goldwater said, 'Well, keep punching, Hubert' during a chance meeting there.By the end of 1977, it became increasingly clear that the Boss (Hubert Humphrey) would not be around much longer. And on the Senate floor one day, Barry Goldwater walked across the aisle and enveloped Hubert Humphrey. Goldwater was so big and Humphrey so frail that Humphrey almost disappeared. The two men stood for a long moment, locked in a hug, and I could see that both men were crying. They made no effort to hide it."— Joe Biden (Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics)
Joe Biden
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
Grover Cleveland
A hallmark of virtuous adulthood is learning to find freedom in your work rather than freedom from your work, even when work might hurt.
Ben Sasse
Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power" <-- This is a fake quote, it appears in none of the writings or recorded speeches of Mussolini.― Benito Mussolini
Benito Mussolini
Everything is recycled in India, even dreams.
Shashi Tharoor
I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope.
Nelson Mandela
There is no index of character as sure as the voice.
Benjamin Disraeli
Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle Old Age a regret.
Benjamin Disraeli
Friendship is love without his wings!
Lord Byron
The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable.
Frédéric Bastiat
Master of human destinies am I.Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait,Cities and fields I walk; I penetrateDeserts and seas remote, and, passing byHovel, and mart, and palace, soon or lateI knock unbidden, once at every gate!If sleeping, wake -- if feasting, rise beforeI turn away. It is the hour of fate,And they who follow me reach every stateMortals desire, and conquer every foeSave death; but to those who doubt or hesitate,Condemned to failure, penury, and woe,Seek me in vain and uselessly implore--I answer not; and I return no more.
John James Ingalls
For most normal people, politics is a distant, occasionally irritating fog.
Tony Blair
We will consider every hand who will try to take our weapons, as an Israeli hand.
Hassan Nasrallah
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.
Woodrow Wilson
They wish to make a medical thing of evil. Madness is also such a useful metaphor, for that which we would rather not face...
Robert K. Tanenbaum
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.
John F Kennedy
My theory is that hope is a form of madness. A benevolent one, sure, but madness all the same. Like an irrational superstition--broken mirrors and so forth--hope's not based on any kind of logic, it's just unfettered optimism, grounded in nothing but faith in things beyond our control.
Benjamin Wood
It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.
Winston S. Churchill
India is not a nation, nor a country. It is a subcontinent of nationalities.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.
Ronald Reagan
Our lives are encumbered with the dead wood of this past; all that is dead and has served its purpose has to go. But that does not mean a break with, or a forgetting of, the vital and life-giving in that past. We can never forget the ideals that have moved our race, the dreams of the Indian people through the ages, the wisdom of the ancients, the buoyant energy and love of life and nature of our forefathers, their spirit of curiosity and mental adventure, the daring of their thought, their splendid achievements in literature, art and culture, their love of truth and beauty and freedom, the basic values that they set up, their understanding of life's mysterious ways, their toleration of other ways than theirs, their capacity to absorb other peoples and their cultural accomplishments, to synthesize them and develop a varied and mixed culture; nor can we forget the myriad experiences which have built up our ancient race and lie embedded in our sub-conscious minds. We will never forget them or cease to take pride in that noble heritage of ours. If India forgets them she will no longer remain India and much that has made her our joy and pride will cease to be.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Based on the experience of history and civilization of mankind, which is more important for Muslims today, to no longer busy discussing the greatness that Muslims achieved in the past, or debating who first discovered the number zero, including the number one, two, three and so on, as the contribution of Muslims in the writing of numbers in this modern era and the foundation and development of civilizations throughout the world. But how Muslims will regained the lead and control of science and technology, leading back and become a leader in the world of science and civilization, because it represents a real achievement.
Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
Hermann Rauschning
Today, despite different backgrounds, those of us who are willing to respect the traditions and history of this country can join together under one national banner as Australians. This is the kind of unity that the conservative will embrace, not the superficial and divisive 'diversity' talk of the radical, who prefers to constantly re-create the nation according to some momentary fashionable utopian image and denounces all patriotic sentiment as jingoist and bigoted.
Cory Bernardi
For the information of these “friends” who consider themselves called to defend against us the role of the Bolsheviks in the October Revolution, we give warning that our book teaches not how to love a victorious revolution after the event, in the person of the bureaucracy it has brought forward, but only how a revolution is prepared,how it develops, and how it conquers. A party is not for us a machine whosesinlessness is to be defended by state measures of repression, but a complicated organism that like all living things develops in contradictions.
Leon Trotsky
Bebek berjalan berbondong-bondong, akan tetapi burung elang terbang sendirian.
Sukarno
The path to paradise begins in hell.
Dante Alighieri
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.
Ronald Reagan
It was a world that most fans never saw. One that many dreamed of.
Louise Mensch
It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. [Italian: Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.]
Dante Alighieri
Just because you don't believe in something does not mean that it's not true.
John Garner
Freedom is being allowed to think your own thoughts and live your own life.
John F Kennedy
The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say 'Well done'.
John Ashcroft
We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan
Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.
Woodrow Wilson
There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
Barack Obama
It would be the irony of fate if my administration had to deal chiefly with foreign affairs.
Woodrow Wilson
Legionary life is beautiful, not because of riches, partying or the acquisition of luxury, but because of the noble comradeship which binds all Legionaries in a sacred brotherhood of struggle.
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
Eisenhower has been much criticized for his failure publicly to endorse the Court's decision. But he felt that doing so would set an undesirable precedent. If a president endorsed decisions he agreed with, might he feel compelled to oppose decisions he did not agree with? And what would that do to the rule of law? "The Supreme Court has spoken and I am sworn to uphold ... the constitutional processes.... I will obey."3
William J. Bennett
One day the people of the world will want peaceso much that the governments will have to get outof their way and give it to them.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
For alongside our famous individualism, there's another ingredient in the American saga- a belief that we're all connected as one people. If there's a child on the south side of Chicago who can't read, that matters to me- even if it's not my child. If there's a senior citizen somewhere who can't pay for their prescription drugs and has to choose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer- even if it's not my grandparent. If there's an Arab-American family being rounded up without benefit of an attorney or due process, that that threatens my civil liberties. It is that fundamental belief- I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper- that makes this country work.
Barack Obama
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
Winston S. Churchill
We all know what to do, but we don’t know how to get re-elected once we have done it.
Jean-Claude Juncker
In any profession, you will be respected if you are good at your job – not because you are good at talking about your beliefs. It may be quite irrational, but the fact is that, if you are recognized as being outstanding on one thing, you will be listened to on all sorts of subjects in no way related to it... and so, if you are going to be really effective [for your cause] in your place of work, you must set out to be the best man at your job.
Douglas Arnold Hyde
Demand the best from yourself, because others will demand the best from you... Successful people don't simply give a project hard work. They give it their best work.
Win Borden
By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness
Pablo Neruda
Twas a cold Yuletide evening, and I wandered the stacks, shelving multiple titles that the patrons brought back. We toiled overtime at our library here, 'cause the powers that be cut our staffing this year.
David Davis
It must be conceded by those who admit the authority of Scripture (such only he is addressing) that from the decision of the word of God there can be no appeal.
William Wilberforce
Before I was a genius I was a drudge.
Ignace Jan Paderewski
...those who deny or oppose these so pleasant delights (of virtue), do so only from jealousy, you may be sure, from the barbarous pleasure of making others as guilty and unhappy as they are. They are blind and would like everyone to be the same, they are mistaken, and would like everyone else to be mistaken; but if you could see into the depths of their hearts you would find only sorrow and repentance; all these apostles of crime are only evil and desperate people; you would not find a sincere person among them who would not admit, if he were truthful, that their poisonous words or dangerous writings had not been guided only by their passions. And what man in fact can say in cold blood that the bases of morality can be shaken without risk? What being would dare maintain that doing good and desiring good are not essentially the aim of mankind? And how can a man who will do only evil expect to be happy in a society whose strongest concern is the perpetual increase of good? But will not this apologist of crime not shudder himself when he had uprooted from all hearts the only thing which could lead to his conversion? What will stop his servants ruining him, if they have ceased to be virtuous?
Marquis de Sade
The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.
Winston S. Churchill
Money can't buy happiness but it will certainly get you a better class of memories.
Ronald Reagan
I've heard that hard work never killed anyone, but I say why take the chance?
Ronald Reagan
From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
Winston S. Churchill
The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.
William Wilberforce
We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.
Jimmy Carter