“ The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman. ”
- Margaret Thatcher- Copy
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“ I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster. ”
- John P. Roche- Copy
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“ Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. ”
- Ernest Benn- Copy
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“ Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm. ”
- Wendell Phillips- Copy
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“ Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
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“ The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
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“ The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly. ”
- Franklin Field- Copy
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“ One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth. ”
- Lionel Strachey- Copy
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“ The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'. ”
- Larry Hardiman- Copy
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“ Politics is a field where action is one long second best and where the choice constantly lies between two blunders. ”
- John Morley- Copy
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“ The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
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“ I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after. ”
- Wallace Stevens- Copy
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“ Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity. ”
- Vera Brittain- Copy
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“ We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it — and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again — and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived. ”
- Rene Descartes- Copy
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“ My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could. ”
- Mikhail Gorbachev- Copy
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“ Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support. ”
- Colin Powell- Copy
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