Quotes by Politicians - Page 9

Green was the silence, wet was the light,the month of June trembled like a butterfly.
Pablo Neruda
We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war.
Bernard Kouchner
In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.
George C. Wallace
Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God. The atheist does not say that there is no God, but he says 'I know not what you mean by God. I am without the idea of God. The word God to me is a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation. I do not deny God, because I cannot deny that of which I have no conception, and the conception of which by its affirmer is so imperfect that he is unable to define it for me.
Charles Bradlaugh
We believe in equality for all, and privileges for none. This is a belief that each American regardless of background has equal standing in the public forum, all of us. Because we believe this idea so firmly, we are an inclusive, rather than an exclusive party. Let everybody come.
Barbara Jordan
Listen with an open heart
William O'Brien
When there’s a vacuum of public input, lobbyists usually fill it. But when there’s public input, the people usually win.
Morgan Carroll
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
As government expands, liberty contracts.
Ronald Reagan
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.
Benjamin Disraeli
When I was young, I thought classical music was only the background noise for cartoons.
Ben Carson
We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity … in fact our movement is Christian.
Adolph Hitler
We must speak the truth if we are to be a great nation
Imran Khan
I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time its value is death.
Ingrid Betancourt
Even on the saddest nightin times of servitudethere is always someone who resiststhere is always someone who says no.
Manuel Alegre
On the 26th of January 1950, we are going to enter into a life of contradictions. In politics we will have equality and in social and economic life we will have inequality.In politics we will be recognizing the principle of one man one vote and one vote one value.In our social and economic life, we shall, by reason of our social and economic structure, continue to deny the principle of one man one value.How long shall we continue to live this life of contradictions? How long shall we continue to deny equality in our social and economic life? If we continue to deny it for long, we will do so only by putting our political democracy in peril. We must remove this contradiction at the earliest possible moment or else those who suffer from inequality will blow up the structure of political democracy which this Assembly has so laboriously built up.
B.R. Ambedkar
My spirit will rise from the grave and the world will see i was right.
Adolf Hitler
It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking.
Ron Paul
I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps. I hunger for your sleek laugh, your hands the color of a savage harvest, hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails, I want to eat your skin like a whole almond. I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body, the sovereign nose of your arrogant face, I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes, and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight, hunting for you, for your hot heart, Like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.
Pablo Neruda
The highest duty of the writer is to remain true to himself and let the chips fall where they may. In serving his vision of the truth the artist best serves his nation.
John F Kennedy
The whole of language is a continuous process of metaphor, and the history of semantics is an aspect of the history of culture; language is at the same time a living thing and a museum of fossils of life and civilisations.
Antonio Gramsci
If we do not feel like praying, then we should pray until we do feel like praying.
Ezra Taft Benson
Intellectually and compassionately explaining the reason freedom works is required for credibility.
Ron Paul
It [gaming] is the child of avarice the brother of iniquity and the father of mischief.
George Washington
Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.
William Lowndes
When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
There is no such thing as a failed test. You will learn every time you challenge yourself.
Marsha Blackburn
The imagination serves us only when the mind is absolutely free of any prejudice. A single prejudice suffices to cool off the imagination. This whimsical part of the mind is so unbridled as to be uncontrollable. Its greatest triumphs, its most eminent delights consist in smashing all the restraints that oppose it. Imagination is the enemy of all norms, the idolater of all disorder and of all that bears the color of crime.
Marquis de Sade
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each
John F Kennedy
In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever that knowledge is power.
John F Kennedy
False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse.
Horace Mann
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Jawaharlal Nehru
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
Antonio Gramsci
Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.
Nelson Mandela
Too often, we judge other groups by their worst examples - while judging ourselves by our best intentions. And this has strained our bonds of understanding and common purpose.But Americans, I think, have a great advantage. To renew our unity, we only need to remember our values. We have never been held together by blood or background. We are bound by things of the spirit – by shared commitments to common ideals.
George W. Bush
So much of what we read and write these days is disposable.
John Kasich
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
Dante Alighieri
An unavoidable war is called justice. When brutality is the only option left it is holy
Machiavelli
To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
George Washington
One with the law is a majority.
Calvin Coolidge
For the hundreds of thousands of Californians in gay and lesbian households who are managing their day-to-day lives, this decision affirms the full legal protections and safeguards I believe everyone deserves.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.
Duke of Wellington
If you want to be relevant only in your household, then you only need to know the things that are important in your house, and if you want to be relevant in your neighborhood, you need to know what's important in your neighborhood. The same thing applies to your city, state, and country. And if you want to be relevant to the entire world, program that computer known as your brain with all kinds of information from everywhere in order to prepare yourself.
Ben Carson
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
Winston S. Churchill
Worry is a word that I don't allow myself to use.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Faced with crisis the man of character falls back on himself.
Charles de Gaulle
No social system will bring us happiness health and prosperity unless it is inspired by something greater than materialism.
Clement R. Attlee
Actions not words are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
George Washington
Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.
Horace Walpole
When you are young and strong...you can stay alive on your hatred"....but realized later "They can take everything from me except my mind and heart"Nelson Mandela from Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
Samuel Adams
I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I do not think that illegal plunder, such as theft or swindling — which the penal code defines, anticipates, and punishes — can be called socialism. It is not this kind of plunder that systematically threatens the foundations of society. Anyway, the war against this kind of plunder has not waited for the command of these gentlemen. The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. Long before the Revolution of February 1848 — long before the appearance even of socialism itself — France had provided police, judges, gendarmes, prisons, dungeons, and scaffolds for the purpose of fighting illegal plunder. The law itself conducts this war, and it is my wish and opinion that the law should always maintain this attitude toward plunder.
Frédéric Bastiat
Both David Koresh and Timothy McVeigh fell in the fight for freedom, the right of the Americans to be left alone.
Eduard Limonov
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Adlai E. Stevenson II
Praise makes me humble, but when I am abused, I know that I have touched the stars.
Gyles Brandreth
The more doubtful the political outlook the fiercer will be the dogmas which men create and contend for.
John Buchan
Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or not.
Sir George Savile
Captured by the ideological animus, both socialist and liberal-democratic art abandoned the criterion of beauty - considered anachronistic and of dubious political value - and replaced it with the criterion of correctness.
Ryszard Legutko
That one never asks a question unless he knows the answer is basic to parliamentary questioning.
John G. Diefenbaker