Quotes by Politicians - Page 38

Man is not the creature of circumstances circumstances are the creature of man. We are free agents and man is more powerful than matter.
Benjamin Disraeli
The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
Robert F. Kennedy
We French-Canadians belong to one country Canada: Canada is for us the whole world: but the English-Canadians have two countries one here and one across the sea.
Wilfrid Laurier
All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
Dante Alighieri
Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.
James Madison
I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general. ... They win battles and they make me lucky.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
For nearly four years you have had an Administration which instead of twirling its thumbs has rolled up its sleeves. We will keep our sleeves rolled up. We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace--business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Many well-meaning Dutch people have told me in all earnestness that nothing in Islamic culture incites abuse of women, that this is just a terrible misunderstanding. Men all over the world beat their women, I am constantly informed. In reality, these Westerners are the ones who misunderstand Islam. The Quaran mandates these punishments. It gives a legitimate basis for abuse, so that the perpetrators feel no shame and are not hounded by their conscience of their community. I wanted my art exhibit to make it difficult for people to look away from this problem. I wanted secular, non-Muslim people to stop kidding themselves that "Islam is peace and tolerance.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The profit of the one is the profit of the other.
Frédéric Bastiat
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
Benjamin Disraeli
A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.
Charles J. Ingersoll
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all other virtues.
Cicero
With kisses your mouth taught memy lips came to know fire.
Pablo Neruda
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi
The morning after the 9/11 attacks...we began talking about the Twin Towers attack. Ruud shook his head sadly about it all. He said, "It's so weird, isn't it, all these people saying this has to do with Islam?" I couldn't help myself...I blurted out, "But it *is* about Islam. This is based in belief. This is Islam." Ruud said, "Ayaan, of course these people may have been Muslims, but they are a lunatic fringe. We have extremist Christians, too, who interpret the bible literally. Most Muslims do not believe these things. To say so is to disparage a faith which is the second largest religion in the world, and which is civilized, and peaceful." I walked into the office thinking, "I have to wake these people up."...The Dutch had forgotten that it was possible for people to stand up and wage war, destroy property, imprison, kill, impose laws of virtue because of the call of God. That kind of religion hadn't been present in Holland for centuries. It was not a lunatic fringe who felt this way about America and the West. I knew that a vast mass of Muslims would see the attacks as justified retaliation against the infidel enemies of Islam.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
When one has no design but to speak plain truth he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.
Richard Steele
Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS.
Winston S. Churchill
Islam desists violence practised by terrorists who kill their brethren and commit all despicable actions under the shelter of religion. Islam dissociates itself strictly from these people and their actions.
Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan
So close that your hand upon my chest is mine,so close that your eyes close with my sleep.
Pablo Neruda
It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.
Woodrow Wilson
If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Love is a clash of lightnings
Pablo Neruda
I am the prince of procrastination. It is my besetting sin. I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after
Gyles Brandreth
In the Hindu religion, one can[not] have freedom of speech. A Hindu must surrender his freedom of speech. He must act according to the Vedas. If the Vedas do not support the actions, instructions must be sought from the Smritis, and if the Smritis fail to provide any such instructions, he must follow in the footsteps of the great men. He is not supposed to reason. Hence, so long as you are in the Hindu religion, you cannot expect to have freedom of thought
B.R. Ambedkar
You take people as far as they will go not as far as you would like them to go.
Jeannette Rankin
Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
Duke of Wellington
If you haven't failed you haven't tried anything new...
Reshma Saujani
If I could give you just one thing, I’d want it to be a simple truth that took me many years to learn. If you learn it now, it may enrich your life in hundreds of ways. And it may prevent you from facing many problems that have hurt people who have never learned it.The truth is simply this:No one owes you anything.
Harry Browne
Of all the problems which will have to be faced in the future, in my opinion, the most difficult will be those concerning the treatment of the inferior races of mankind.
Leonard Darwin
Politics is theater. It doesn't matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, "I'm here, pay attention to me
Harvey Milk
No man ever listened himself out of a job.
Calvin Coolidge
The excess of pleasure is pain
Almeida Garrett
Religion demands above all the concentration of the spirit...it is a thrusting into the unity of all things so as to come to grips in the hiddenness of the soul with the unity of the One from Whom it all comes.
Abraham Kuyper
Everything in life is luck.
Donald Trump
It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
Adlai Stevenson
There are generally three kinds of people in the world. People who make things happen, people who watch things happen, and people who say, what in the heck happened.
Herman Cain
Leaning into the afternoons I cast my sad netstowards your oceanic eyes.There in the highest blaze my solitude lengthens and flames,its arms turning like a drowning man's.I send out red signals across your absent eyesthat smell like the sea or the beach by a lighthouse.You keep only darkness, my distant female,from your regard sometimes the coast of dread emerges.Leaning into the afternoons I fling my sad netsto that sea that is thrashed by your oceanic eyes.The birds of night peck at the first starsthat flash like my soul when I love you.The night gallops on its shadowy mareshedding blue tassels over the land.
Pablo Neruda
Of this I am certain, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Winston S. Churchill
The Government is making a fool of itself by attributing all terrorism and acts against the government only to one single patriot
Carlos Marighella
In politics guts is all.
Barbara Castle
[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the c
John F Kennedy
This points to a central tension in our very idea and practice of democracy – it is not a simple appeal to the rule of the majority. It is also about respecting that the power of the people is limited by what’s fair to minorities, what’s reasonable, and by what’s legal and constitutional.
Bob Rae
To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
Woodrow Wilson
Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights and keep them. Our strength is our unity of purpose. To that high concept there can be no end save victory.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Where there is true variety, there will be inevitable 'inequality' - that is simply the result of human nature and the pluralism that defines us as a people.
Cory Bernardi
Similar (of course, far from identical) irritations in similar conditions call out similar reflexes; the more powerful the irritation, the sooner it overcomes personal peculiarities. To a tickle, people react differently, but to a red-hot iron, alike. As a steam-hammer converts a sphere and a cube alike into sheet metal, so under the blow of too great and inexorable events resistances are smashed and the boundaries of “individuality” lost.
Leon Trotsky
Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying, everything is absorbed through weather and the sea, and the moon swam back, its rays all silvered, and time and again the darkness would be broken by the crash of a wave, and every day on the balcony of the sea, wings open, fire is born, and everything is blue again like morning.
Pablo Neruda
He's like a football coach who's smart enough to win the game and dumb enough to think it's important.
Eugene McCarthy
We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one fear of the dark to another of physical pain to a third of public ridicule to a fourth of poverty to a fifth of loneliness ... for all of us our particular creature waits in ambush.
Horace Walpole
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Winston S. Churchill
Worry is the only insupportable misfortune of life.
Henry Saint John
Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.
Mario Vargas Llosa
It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.
Kossuth
Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they can. He can deepen their joys, expand their vision, quicken their minds, strengthen their muscles, lift their spirits, multiply their blessings, increase their opportunities, comfort their soals, and pour out peace.
Ezra Taft Benson
It was not lack of ability that limited my people, but lack of opportunity.
Nelson Mandela
Christopher was wearing a suit and adorned make-up. As long as I had known him, he never wore a suit or make-up. The look of him defenseless to his appearance saddened me.
Brian Joyce
The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned.The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.
Henry A. Wallace
If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.
Auberon Herbert
Ideas and opinions are not spontaneously "born" in each individual brain: they have had a centre of formation, or irradiation, of dissemination, of persuasion-a group of men, or a single individual even, which has developed them and presented them in the political form of current reality.
Antonio Gramsci