Quotes by Politicians - Page 46

Lead from the back — and let others believe they are in front.
Nelson Mandela
There will be no veterans of World War III.
Walter Mondale
If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
James Madison
All the great pleasures in life are silent.
Georges Clémenceau
Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
Marquis de Sade
It's not that some people have willpower and some don't... It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.
James Gordon
France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war
Charles de Gaulle
The Englishman has all the qualities of a poker except its occasional warmth.
Daniel O'Connell
The difference between those who adapted and those who didn't, Gorton said, was a willingness to totally commit.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
Benjamin Disraeli
To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of democracy.
Aung San Suu Kyi
At last I perceive that in revolutions the supreme power finally rests with the most abandoned.
Georges Jacques Danton
He who studies old books will always find in them something new, and he who reads new books will always find in them something old.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The battle for women's rights has been largely won.
Margaret Thatcher
The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
Henry L. Stimson
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
James F. Byrnes
When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
Shirley Chisholm
Do not rely completely on any other human being however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.
Agnes Macphail
Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends - honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism - these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded then is a return to these truths. What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task.
Barack Obama
Overall, becoming a carbon-neutral country would involve changes in our behaviour, but these are modest compared with the changes that will be forced upon us if we do nothing.
Caroline Lucas
We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.
John Adams
Unlike Churchill I have no plans to shape history. . . . Socrates gave advice - and they poisoned him.
George Bush
As a Nobel Peace laureate, I, like most people, agonize over the use of force. But when it comes to rescuing an innocent people from tyranny or genocide, I've never questioned the justification for resorting to force. That's why I supported Vietnam's 1978 invasion of Cambodia, which ended Pol Pot's regime, and Tanzania's invasion of Uganda in 1979, to oust Idi Amin. In both cases, those countries acted without U.N. or international approval—and in both cases they were right to do so.
José Ramos-Horta
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.
Leon Trotsky
Damn your principles! Stick to your party!
Benjamin Disraeli
I know one thing for sho Heaven’s gotta have a ghettoCuz where else in death do I get to go?
Carlos Salinas
There is no humanity or charity in destroying self-reliance, dignity, and self-respect.
Ronald Reagan
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything ... or nothing.
Lady Astor
The best prophet of the future is the past.
John Sherman
When you are nearer, you will understand how much your eyesight is deceived by distance. Therefore, push yourself a little harder.
Dante Alighieri
To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.
Thomas Haliburton
Solitude and retirement cherish grief, employment and exertion are the only means of dissipating it.
Lord Melbourne
In victory even the cowardly like to boast while in adverse times even the brave are discredited.
Sallust
Had we but world enough, and time...
Andrew Marvell
We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance.
Al Gore
The religious scholars I have consulted are passionate about the need for political leaders to educate themselves in the varieties of faith and to see religion more as a potential means for reconciliation than as a source of conflict.
Madeleine Albright
Quote from "A la bulgaro":"So long time has passed since those days, and since that story, which is still vivid in my memory, and even more vivid than all the rest. Some times I stay alone in my work - room here, in my father's old mansion in Pasadena, and I look through the old, yellow pages again and again. Then I go back to the north part which is furnished in my style, with many colored Bulgarian carpets and blankets (special kind of Bulgarian blankets with long fur), I make my coffee in a cooper coffee - pot, which has been brought from there, and my thoughts wonder to those absurd memories of mine...Very often some friends ask me - what is that unusual memories of yours? I can't explain to them, better say I don't want to, and I always avoid the answer by saying - a la Bulgaro - in a Bulgarian way..."Oh, yes, yes"...
Alexandar Tomov
There are no snares more dangerous than those which lurk under the guise of duty or the name of relationship.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
Al Franken
The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.
Adolf Hitler
Do you know where you were on Thursday evening at about eight o'clock last week, and who you were with, and what you were doing? Are you absolutely certain beyond any shadow of a doubt? Would you bet your life on it? If there is any possibility—no matter how slim or remote—that you could possibly be mistaken about such a thing, you are the kind of person who should never agree to talk to the police under just about any circumstances for as long as you live. And that includes practically everybody.
James Duane
One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.
Winston S. Churchill
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi
I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.
Boris Johnson
The century on which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.
Henry A. Wallace
Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.
Winston S. Churchill
I am bound to accord you, in the name of free speech, the full right to shout, lie and write to your heart’s content. But you are bound to grant me, in the name of freedom of association, the right to enter into, or withdraw from, association with people advocating this or that view.
Vladimir Lenin
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
Winston S. Churchill
Ad they entered Berlin, while still killing off the last of its German defenders, The Russians indulged in an orgy of rape and rage beyond the bounds of human Imagination. Over the course of ten days, about 130,000 women were raped---
Andrei Cherny
Men are not gentle and graceful beings solely oriented towards good. They are physical, coarse, contradictory, stretched between desires and temptations. In an unnatural wish to make them sinless and infallible, we suddenly realize that we have obtained bloodless, sentimental and false personalities incapable of both good and evil. Separating them from mother Earth, we separate them from life, and where is no life, there is no virtue either.
Alija Izetbegović
I don't hate Republicans as individuals. But I hate what the Republicans are doing to this country. I really do.
Howard Dean
The quest to remove all inequality is the deadening hand of socialism and results in social stagnation.
Cory Bernardi
My firm conviction is that if wide-spread Eugenic reforms are not adopted during the next hundred years or so, our Western Civilization is inevitably destined to such a slow and gradual decay as that which has been experienced in the past by every great ancient civilization. The size and the importance of the United States throws on you a special responsibility in your endeavours to safeguard the future of our race. Those who are attending your Congress will be aiding in this endeavour, and though you will gain no thanks from your own generation, posterity will, I believe, learn to realize the great dept it owes to all the workers in this field.
Leonard Darwin
Dedicated to the memory of MY FATHER. For if I had not believed that he would have wished me to give such help as I could toward making his life's work of service to mankind, I should never have been led to write this book.
Leonard Darwin
It's possible to satisfy the needs of the inner life by an intimate communion with nature, or by knowledge of the past.
Adolf Hitler
Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty
Ronald Reagan
It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.
Theodore Roosevelt
Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.
Benjamin Disraeli
An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory.
Millard Fillmore