Famous Quotes

"A war for a great principle ennobles a nation."

Albert Pike on Politics

More quotes about Politics

• "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."

  John F. Kennedy on Politics

• "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself."

  Mark Twain on Politics

• "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

  Plato on Politics

• "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."

  Milton Friedman on Politics

• "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."

  Joseph Stalin on Politics

More quotes by Albert Pike

• "What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."

• "What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."

• "Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted."

• "Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other."

• "Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth."