Famous Quotes

"The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs."

Alphonse de Lamartine 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 Alphonse de Lamartine

• "Experience is the only prophecy of wise men."

• "There is a woman at the begining of all great things."

• "Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys."

• "Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history."

• "There is a woman at the begining of all great things."