“My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.”
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“Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.”
“My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.”
“Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.”
“I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.”
“Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.”
“Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.”
“Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.”
“Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.”
“Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.”
“Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.”
“King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.”
“Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.”
“It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.”
“Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.”
“Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.”
“Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.”
“I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.”
“A fool and his money are soon elected.”
“Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.”
“Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.”
“It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.”
“Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.”
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”