“A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.”
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Voices on politics
“It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.”
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“Patriotism is not obedience to government. Patriotism is obedience to the principals for which government is supposed to stand.”
“In politics stupidity is not a handicap.”
“Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.”
“Who doesn't want to shortcut the greatness.”
The Contender, 2000. Film.
“Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.”
“When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
“He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.”
“In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.”
“Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.”
“After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.”
“What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?”
“A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.”
“I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.”
“I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.”
“Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself.”
“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
“If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”
“If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.”
“Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.”
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.”
“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”
“Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.”
“I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.”