Quotes by Politicians - Page 59

I wish to be buried in Ireland, the country of my adoption a country which I loved, which I have dutifully served, and for which I believe I have sacrificed my life.
Thomas Drummond
Whatever little we have gained we have gained by agitation while we have uniformly lost by moderation.
Daniel O'Connell
Allah exalts whom he wills!
Imran Khan
We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The price of coming from a small town is that everyone knows your story. Your book has been read, shelved, dusted, and re-read by everybody.
Brian Joyce
Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he be a tyrant.
Benito Mussolini
If not now, then when?
John E. Lewis
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
For of those to whom much is given, much is required
John F Kennedy
Propriety of manners and consideration for others are the two main characteristics of a gentleman.
Benjamin Disraeli
When the President does it , that means that it is not illegal.
Richard M. Nixon
Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes they were the easiest for his feet.
John Selden
Men of power have not time to read, yet men who do not read are not fit for power.
Michael Foot
As I mentioned earlier, women get mixed messages in childhood: You can do anything you want... but it wouldn't hurt to find someone who will take good care of you.
Lois P. Frankel
In 1965, I marched for equality.
Alphonso Jackson
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
See the flower, how generously it distributes perfume and honey. When it's work is done, it falls away quietly. Try to be like the flower, unassuming despite all it's qualities.
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
[Self]-distrust manifests blatantly in the judge's reaction to your experiences of expansion. 'Expansion' here refers to situations when you try something new, success at something you're never done before, stop a self-destructive habit, speak up in your own defense, recognize a truth about yourself, take on a new responsibility, and so on. The expansion is a shift in your sense of who you are or who you have taken yourself to be: who you are becomes a little bigger, includes a little more than it did before.What does the judge do with these moments? Most everyone has experienced some sort of contraction after they expand: some letdown, some fear creeping in, some shame about being bigger, some withdrawal from the expansion. In one sense, this is part of a natural cycle of expansion and contraction. However, the contraction is seldom seen as part of the normal flow of the unfolding soul.
Byron Brown
I was glad to hear that you were to be confirmed.
Theodore Roosevelt
Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread.
Pablo Neruda
If the caged birds think whoever scattering grains for them that person is their deity,what should we Kurds call the person who will grantee us an independence.
Davan Yahya Khalil
If one had but a single glance to give the world one should gaze on Istanbul.
Alphonse de Lamartine
The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts bestowed for the good of the country and not for the benefit of an individual or a party.
John Caldwell Calhoun
Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can't understand.
Cardinal de Retz
You kept quit... When these victims wanted your help to survive, you kept quit.
paul kagame
I am the way into the city of woe,I am the way into eternal pain,I am the way to go among the lost.Justice caused my high architect to move,Divine omnipotence created me,The highest wisdom, and the primal love.Before me there were no created thingsBut those that last forever—as do I.Abandon all hope you who enter here.
Dante Alighieri
The Empire is a Commonwealth of nations.
Lord Rosebery
Creativity should be integral to everything that we do. Creativity should also be intrinsic to our personality, if excellence is what we seek.
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind.
John Adams
A Chinese Christian prayed every day .... "Lord reform Thy world beginning with me."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore with instant fires, Now let us sport us while we may, And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow-chapped power.Let us roll all our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball, And tear our pleasures with rough strife Thorough the iron gates of life: Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.
Andrew Marvell
In the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.
John F Kennedy
If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States.
Henry A. Wallace
Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character.
Margaret Chase Smith
So many come to the sickroom thinking of themselves as men of science fighting disease and not as healers with a little knowledge helping nature to get a sick man well.
Sir Auckland Geddes
They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.
George W. Bush
A man of courage is also full of faith.
Cicero
Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.
Ronald Reagan
Ignorance is the root of many ills. Knowledge must be the fundamental ally of nations that aspire, despite all their tragedies and problems, to become truly emancipated, to build a better world.
Fidel Castro
Opportunity makes the man
José de Alencar
Never let me hear that foolish word again.
Mirabeau
When I assert that Islam is not a religion of peace I do not mean that Islamic belief makes Muslims naturally violent. This is manifestly not the case: there are many millions of peaceful Muslims in the world. What I do say is that the call to violence and the justification for it are explicitly stated in the sacred texts of Islam.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
William McKinley
There are only three integral views of the world: the religious, the materialistic, and the Islamic. They reflect three elemental possibilities (conscience, nature, and man), each of them manifesting itself as Christianity, materialism, and Islam. All variety of ideologies, philosophies, and teachings from the oldest time up to now can be reduced to one of these three basic world views. The first takes as its starting point the existence of the spirit, the second the existence of matter, and the third the simultaneous existence of spirit and matter. If only matter exists, materialism would be the only consequent philosophy. On the contrary, if the spirit exists then man also exists, and man's life would be senseless without a kind of religion and morality. Islam is the name for the unity of spirit and matter, the highest form of which is man himself. The human life is complete only if it includes both the physical and the spiritual desires of the human being. All man's failures are either because of the religious denial of man's biological needs of the materialistic denial of man's spiritual desires.
Alija Izetbegović
If you would be powerful pretend to be powerful.
Home Tooke
I'm not sure I've ever profited on the legacy of Watergate.
John Dean
The past is the best prophet of the future.
Lord Byron
Wouldn’t this old world be better If the folks we meet would say: ‘I know something good about you,’ And then treat us that way?
N. Eldon Tanner
Too often we . . . enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
John F Kennedy
Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.
Sir William Blackstone
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Never explain, never retract, never apologize. Just get the thing done and let them howl.
Nellie L. McClung
The things that people were the most grateful for were the ordinary things in life. The sound of your spouse’s laugh, the smell of morning coffee, the echo of children playing in the yard. The little things. In waiting for the big moments—the vacations, the retirements, the birthdays—we risk missing the experiences of life most worthy of celebrating.
John O'Leary
To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy. To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.
Barack Obama
A student was given a mentoring opportunity, "in the hope that when you had somebody to lean on you, you would begin to stand a little steadier yourself, and get manliness and thoughtfulness.
Thomas Hughes
Confederation is only yet in the gristle and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.
John A. Macdonald
I have nothing to do with this pseudo-religious approach that Gandhi is advocating.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The government cannot give to anybody anything that thegovernment does not first take from somebody else.
Adrian Rogers
We are all born for love ... It is the principle of existence and its only end.
Benjamin Disraeli
Happiness is like a cat. If you try to coax it or call it it will avoid you. It will never come. But if you pay no attention to it and go about your business you'll find it rubbing against your legs and jumping into your lap.
William Bennett