Quotes by Politicians - Page 51

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
Sallust
Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.
Douglas Hurd
For a man's home is his castle.
Sir Edward Coke
An amiable weakness.
R. B. Sheridan
Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.
Winston S. Churchill
The task of a truly revolutionary party is not to declare that it is impossible to renounce all compromises, but to be able, through all compromises, when they are unavoidable, to remain true to its principles, to its class, to its revolutionary purpose, to its task of paving the way for revolution and educating the mass of the people for victory in the revolution.
Vladimir Lenin
I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
Nancy Astor
In the late hours of the night, befriend the prayer mat.
Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai Stevenson
I always stay hungry, never satisfied with current accomplishments.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
James A. Garfield
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
Jeannette Rankin
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
One of the great things about anarchy is that it’s hard to get it organized.
George Hammond
Laws die books never.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The secret to success is constancy of purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli
If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.
Marquis de Sade
If we love our country we should also love our countrymen.
Ronald Reagan
Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
Lord Byron
If you have sacrificed my nation to preserve the peace of the world, I will be the first to applaud you. But if not, gentlemen, God help your souls." Czechoslovakian foreign minister Jan Masaryk to Lord Halifax as reaction to announcement of allies' betrayal in 1938.
Jan Masaryk
I love books. If they are good books, I love them even more. But even if they are bad books, I still love them.
Hugo Chávez
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
Joseph Stalin
No one can make you successful, the will to succeed comes from within
Fabrizio Moreira
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum."(Adlai E. Stevenson, 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician)
Adlai E. Stevenson II
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
Winston Churchill
Purgatory surpasses heaven and hell in poetry, because it represents a future and the others do not.
Francois Rene De Chateaubriand
Wisdom of the Ages: "Ski-ing" The act of visiting Polish people.
Matthew Heines
Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.
Winston Churchill
What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
Caius Terentius Varro
Always choose the most difficult way, there you will not meet competitors.
Charles de Gaulle
De pronto no puedo decirtelo que yo te debo decir,hombre,perdóname; sabrásque aunque no escuches mis palabrasno me eché a llorar ni a dormiry que contigo estoy sin vertedesde hace tiempo y hasta el fin.I can't just suddenly tell youwhat I should be telling you,friend, forgive me; you knowthat although you don't hear my words,I wasn't asleep or in tears,that I am with you without seeing youfor a good long time and until the end.
Pablo Neruda
Don't confuse having a career with having a life.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
To persevere in one's duty and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
George Washington
I married beneath me. All women do.
Nancy Astor
Say goodbye to the IMF once and for all as the IMF's conditions enriches the rich and impoverishes the poor.
Imran Khan
There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.
W. J. Bryan
Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marijuana in private for personal use... Therefore, I support legislation amending Federal law to eliminate all Federal criminal penalties for the possession of up to one ounce [28g] of marijuana.
Jimmy Carter
Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal though no more though fallen great!
Lord Byron
I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
Dudley Field Malone
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
Benjamin Disraeli
Great Britain was going to make war on a kindred nation who desired nothing better than to be friends with her.
Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me
Winston S. Churchill
The human race has improved everything except the human race.
Adlai Stevenson
I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, in human liberty as the source of national action, in the human heart as the source of national compassion... for liberalism is not so much a party creed as it is an attitude of mind and heart, a faith in man's ability through the experiences of his reason and judgment to increase for himself and his fellow men the amount of justice and freedom and brotherhood which all human life deserves.
John F Kennedy
Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way and the other to let her have it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Free love may try to dissolve, and the concubinate to desecrate, the holiest tie, as it pleases; but, for the vast majority of our race, marriage remains the foundation of human society and the family retains its position as the primordial sphere in sociology.
Abraham Kuyper
There is no freedom without bravery.
Ben Carson
There should be no bitterness or hate where the sole thought is the welfare of the United States of America. No man can occupy the office of President without realizing that he is President of all the people.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck-rake.
Theodore Roosevelt
I haven't asked you to make me young again. All I want is to go on getting older.
Konrad Adenauer
We're interested in the mass-merchandising of anything. If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we'd market them too
Alan Sugar
My vegetable love will growVaster than empires, and more slow.
Andrew Marvell
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Teddy Roosevelt
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
Georges Clémenceau
Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart-it's all a man has.
Hubert H. Humphrey
The principles of liberalism can have a real existence only in conjunction with a police system. Anarchism is an attempt to cleanse liberalism of the police. But just as pure oxygen is impossible to breathe, so liberalism without the police principle means the death of society. Being a shadow-caricature of liberalism, anarchism as a whole has shared its fate. Having killed liberalism, the development of class contradictions has also killed anarchism. Like every sect which founds its teaching not upon the actual development of human society, but upon the reduction to absurdity of one of its features, anarchism explodes like a soap bubble at that moment when the social contradictions arrive at the point of war or revolution.
Leon Trotsky
when are you going to take a real decision ?We sometimes say Amen to anything that come in our way, but the real question is that: are you really taking account of what you are hearing ? Or what you are reading ? What is the essence of you saying Amen when someone is sending you a devotional message or the word of God if you don't really care about living a true life worthy of The Gospel ? God should have mercy in us for this gospel isn't a joke. If you see someone sending you messages about God, don't think the person does it for doing sake, no brother, no sister. Consider it for this messages will rather save you or judge one day! Shalom God bless you.
Jean Faustin Louembe
I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend. But with my accent, I was afraid they would try to deport me.
Arnold Schwarzenegger