Famous Quotes
"Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim."
More quotes about Politics
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"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 Thomas B. Macaulay
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"We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age."
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"The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power."
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"The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion."
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"The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power."
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"Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim."