Quotes by Politicians - Page 66

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
Dante Alighieri
I can never look at these apparent contradictions between the great laws of nature without a feeling of physical uneasiness which amounts to suffering. Were mankind reduced to the necessity of choosing between two parties, one of whom injures his interest, and the other his conscience, we should have nothing to hope from the future. Happily, this is not the case; and to see Aristus regain his economical superiority, as well as his moral superiority, it is sufficient to understand this consoling maxim, which is no less true from having a paradoxical appearance, “To save is to spend.
Frédéric Bastiat
War is a series of catastrophes that results in victory.
Georges Clémenceau
The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy.
Winston S. Churchill
Good deeds must be rewarded by the system and crimes be punished - this is the essence of meritocracy.
Imran Khan
Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.
Marquis De Lafayette
The giving of undue prominence to one fact brings others inexorably on the head of the student to avenge his neglect of them,
Thomas Hughes
We had a strict routine that nothing could change: we'd get up at six, and it would be my job or Meinhard's to get milk from the farm door. When w were a little older and starting to play sports, exercises were added to the chores, and we had to earn our breakfast by doing sit-ups. In the afternoon, we'd finish our homework and chores, and my father would make us practice soccer no matter how bad the weather was.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
The penalty of success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
Lady Nancy Astor
To like and dislike the same things this is what makes a solid friendship.
Sallust
Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long love’s day.
Andrew Marvell
We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching.
Paul Tsongas
In Israel, in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.
David Ben-Gurion
We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air we shall defend our island whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches we shall fight on the landing grounds we shall fight in the fields and in the streets we shall fight in the halls. We shall never surrender.
Winston Churchill
There comes a point in your life when you realize your hardest times are your best times, too—you will see the rainbow of your life.
Roy Bennett
Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
Marquis de Sade
But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near
Andrew Marvell
player: Can I reach it with a five iron? caddie: Eventually.
John Adams
I know the human being and fish can co-exist peacefully.
George W. Bush
Resorting to lying or cheating in any competition amounts to conceding defeat.
George Hammond
Reality is always richer, more unpredictable than our deductions
Leonardo Sciascia
Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.
Bob Brown
The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.
Patrick Henry
Why are some countries able, despite their very real and serious problems, to press ahead along the road to reconciliation, recovery, and redevelopment while others cannot? These are critical questions for Africa, and their answers are complex and not always clear. Leadership is crucial, of course. Kagame was a strong leader–decisive, focused, disciplined, and honest–and he remains so today. I believe that sometimes people's characters are molded by their environment. Angola, like Liberia, like Sierra Leone, is resource-rich, a natural blessing that sometimes has the sad effect of diminishing the human drive for self-sufficiency, the ability and determination to maximize that which one has. Kagame had nothing. He grew up in a refugee camp, equipped with only his own strength of will and determination to create a better life for himself and his countrymen.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Death so called is a thing which makes men weep And yet a third of life is pass'd in sleep.
Lord Byron
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
John F Kennedy
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
Dean Acheson
There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
When one demands equal rights for women, one needs to assess in which areas women can work better than men, in which they can work like men, and in which they need protection and affirmative action for when they cannot work like men.
Pervez Musharraf
In four months we could actually have an administration that believes in science.
Mark Warner
Government is a trust and the officers of the government are trustees and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
Henry Clay
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
Nelson Mandela
God’s justice in the one, and his goodness in the other, is exercised for evermore, as the everlasting subjects of his reward and punishment.
Sir Walter Raleigh
That girl has done things to your head.'He pats my back, 'Don’t pretend she’s not crawling inside of yours.
James W. Bodden
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
Benjamin Disraeli
The Whites have carried to these (colonial) people the worst that they could carry: the plagues of the world: materialism, fanaticism, alcoholism, and syphilis. Moreover, since what these people possessed on their own was superior to anything we could give them, they have remained themselves... The sole result of the activity of the colonizers is: they have everywhere aroused hatred.
Adolf Hitler
I wonder why I ever bothered with sex, he thought; there’s nothing in this breathing world so gratifying as an artfully placed semicolon.
Camille Desmoulins
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
Irina Dunn
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
Winston S. Churchill
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
Barry Commoner
Living next to the United States is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Wisdom of the Ages: "Government" Like a mafia protection racket-without the protection.
Matthew Heines
Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan
The proper task of social reform is to remove poverty from society and to ensure that people do not sell their conscience to make a living.
Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
It is not power that corrupts but fear.
Aung San Suu Kyi
In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor.
F. D. Roosevelt
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence conservatism distrust of the people tempered by fear.
William E. Gladstone
One thing is clear: The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.
Ron Paul
The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Wisdom of the Ages: "Humility" If you don't have it, you're gonna get it.
Matthew Heines
He says a thousand pleasant things - But never says "Adieu"
J. G. Saxe
Crossing the starting line may be an act of courage, but crossing the finish line is an act of faith. Faith is what kepes us going when nothing else will. Faith is the emotion that will give you victory over your past, the demons in your soul, & all of those voices that tell you what you can & cannot do & can & cannot be.
John Bingham
Every nation can harness the energy of its citizens, either towards constructive work to generate optimism and hope, or towards tensions, unrest and war.
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Obviously these are some exceptional young people, but what they have in common is that they were ordinary people who cared. They wanted to act, to do something, to make life better for other people—and they have.
Morgan Carroll
Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
Colin Powell
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs and comes short again and again who knows the great enthusiasms the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all.
William Wilberforce
The idea that the government has services or goods that they can pass on is a complete farce. Governments have nothing. They can’t create anything, they never have. All they can do is steal from one group and give it to another at the destruction of the principles of freedom, and we ought to challenge that concept.
Ron Paul
Action not words are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
George Washington