Quotes by Politicians - Page 25

I cannot follow you Christians; for you try to crawl through your life upon your knees, while I stride through mine on my feet.
Charles Bradlaugh
I would rather be right than President.
Henry Clay
Begin each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.
Roy Bennett
All political lives unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture end in failure.
Enoch Powell
You would be much amused with the animals round the ranch.
Theodore Roosevelt
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
Dante Alighieri
It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.
Ezra Taft Benson
To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian-to help them is.
Frank A. Clark
My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.
Winston S. Churchill
God Almighty hates a quitter.
Samuel Fessenden
If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Moshe Dayan
Remember this, I beseech you, all you boys who are getting into the upper forms. Now is the time in all your lives, probably, when you may have more wide influence for good or evil on the society you live in than you ever can have again.
Thomas Hughes
Life is one grand sweet song so start the music
Ronald Reagan
The German people in its whole character is not warlike, but rather soldierly, that is, while they do not want war, they are not frightened by the thoughts of it.
Adolf Hitler
The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not worshipped; it is our future in which we will find our greatness.
Pierre Trudeau
Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.
Arthur Wellesley
Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief period over any success or defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell.
Lord Byron
A man's character is only formed after the impressions of childhood and early youth have become blended with the indefinable and hidden influences both atavistic and of more immediate heredity. When, like soft clay, the newborn human spirit has been first fashioned by the firm hand of the modeller and then allowed to set and harden, this is the moment of the final character emerges, fixed for life. While the part played by heredity will always remains elusive and uncertain, the influence of a man's early years are not difficult to unfurl if we know where to seek and consider seriously what we find.
Miklós Bánffy
A schoolboy's tale the wonder of an hour!
Lord Byron
In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is wanting.
John Lubbock
You've got to be willing to stay committed to someone over the long run and sometimes it doesn't work out. But often if you become real honest with yourself and honest with each other and put aside whatever personal hurt and disappointment you have to really understand yourself and your spouse it can be the most wonderful experience you've ever had.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
If he could sleep, she thought, sleep through the unhappy months, the heart's hunger, the months of death and cold and not having what you most want, and wake with time gone past and blurred and a new year coming. But perhaps it is too early in the year, she thought after that, and besides, he is not a bear.
Naomi Mitchison
A man of fifty is responsible for his face.
Edwin McMasters Stanton
it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.
Winston S. Churchill
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside where it functions best.
Margaret Thatcher
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
Winston Churchill
I never forgive but I always forget.
Arthur James Balfour
The jobs in the greatest demand in the future don't yet exist and will require workers to use technologies that have not yet been invented to solve problems that we don't yet even know are problems.
Gavin Newsom
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
William Ewart Gladstone
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so -bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say "This was their finest hour."
Winston Churchill
Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.
Benjamin Disraeli
‎Teachers matter. So instead of bashing them, or defending the status quo, let’s offer schools a deal. Give them the resources to keep good teachers on the job, and reward the best ones. In return, grant schools flexibility: To teach with creativity and passion; to stop teaching to the test; and to replace teachers who just aren’t helping kids learn.
Barack Obama
America operates under the notion of equality before the law. Basic fairness is an article of faith. We may not agree on everything all of the time, but we select our leaders together. And when we don’t want them anymore, we get rid of them.
Keith Ellison
The presidency does not yield to definition. Like the glory of a morning sunrise it can be experienced - it can not be told.
Calvin Coolidge
Millions for defense but not one cent for tribute.
Charles C. Pinckney
Author refers to, "short silences in which the resolves which colour a life are so often taken.
Thomas Hughes
‎The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave.
Leon Trotsky
To harden the earththe rocks took charge:instantlythey grew wings:the rocksthat soared:the survivorsflew upthe lightning bolt,screamed in the night,a watermark,a violet sword,a meteor.The succulentskyhad not only clouds,not only space smelling of oxygen,but an earthly stoneflashing here and therechanged into a dove,changed into a bell,into immensity, into a piercingwind:into a phosphorescent arrow,into salt of the sky.
Pablo Neruda
One day, I was on the front lawn of the property and aimed the gun at a sparrow perched high in a tree. Hazel Goldreich, Arthur's wife, was watching me and jokingly remarked that I would never hit the target. But she had hardly finished the sentence when the sparrow fell to the ground. I turned to her and was about to boast, when the Goldreichs' son Paul, then about five years old, turned to me with tears in his eyes and said, "David, why did you kill that bird? Its mother will be sad." My mood immediately shifted from one of pride to shame; I felt that this small boy had far more humanity than I did. It was an odd sensation for a man who was the leader of a nascent guerrilla army.
Nelson Mandela
You know what I think about violence. For me it is profoundly moral -more moral than compromises and transactions.
Benito Mussolini
WHAT DO WE WANT?! PATIENCE! WHEN DO WE WANT IT?! NOW!
Al Franken
The business of America is business.
Calvin Coolidge
Every man believes to some extent that the world began when he was born and, at the moment of leaving it, suffers at having to let the Universe remain unfinished.
Maurice Druon
I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced. I have the urge to cut the book by fifty pages or so, possessed as I am with a keener appreciation for brevity.
Barack Obama
Believe me I do understand and I am disgusted by the idea that we should aim for any less for a child from a poor background than a rich one.
David Cameron
The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.
Bess Myerson
This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours.
Jimmy Carter
This Voyager spacecraft was constructed by the United States of America. We are a community of 240 million human beings among the more than 4 billion who inhabit the planet Earth. We human beings are still divided into nation states, but these states are rapidly becoming a single global civilization.We cast this message into the cosmos. It is likely to survive a billion years into our future, when our civilization is profoundly altered and the surface of the Earth may be vastly changed. Of the 200 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, some--perhaps many--may have inhabited planets and spacefaring civilizations. If one such civilization intercepts Voyager and can understand these recorded contents, here is our message:This is a present from a small distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts, and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours. We hope someday, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of galactic civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination, and our good will in a vast and awesome universe
Jimmy Carter
The race for excellence has no finish line.
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
The situation is one something like living with your wife. Sometimes it is difficult and even irritating to live with her but it is always impossible to live without her.
Lester Pearson
Nations like individuals live and die but civilization cannot die.
Guiseppe Mazzini
To those who are gay, lesbian, bisexual,or transgender-let me say- you are not alone. You're struggle, for the end to violence and discrimination, is a shared struggle. Today, I stand with you. And I call upon all countries and people, to stand with you too.A historic shift is underway. We must tackle the violence, decriminalize consensual same sex relationships and end discrimination. We must educate the public. I call on this council and people of conscience to make this happen.The time has come.
Ban Ki-Moon
There are neither raptures, nor ecstasies, nor transports of bliss in the pleasures of the table; but they make up in duration what they lose in intensity, and are distinguished above all by the merit of inclining us towards all the other pleasures of life, or at least of consoling us for the loss of them.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
He had a voice you couldn't miss: strong and penetrating with strange vowels that sounded different from the accents of other English speakers even to me. I later discovered that he was Canadian.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell
The interaction of disparate cultures, the vehemence of the ideals that led the immigrants here, the opportunity offered by a new life, all gave America a flavor and a character that make it as unmistakable and as remarkable to people today as it was to Alexis de Tocqueville in the early part of the nineteenth century.
John F Kennedy
People often say that in a democracy decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing.
Walter H. Judd
The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.
Augustine Birrell