Politics Quotes

"A man's rights rest in three boxes. The ballot-box, the jury-box and the cartridge-box."

"The fact that the colored man is not in the jury box is a standing proof of his inferiority."

"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."

"This is American ground."

"The nation cannot long endure thus divided."

"No nation was ever ruined by trade."

"Were it left to me to decide whether we should have government without newspapers, or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."

"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies."

"The rich rob the poor, and the poor rob one another."

"A house divided against itself cannot stand when there is slavery."

"The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government."

"I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation had a right to intermeddle in the internal concerns of another."

"The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible."

"The circumstances that have brought the American colonies into a union are such as to make it the interest of all of them to unite permanently together."

"There is a natural and necessary progression from the extreme of anarchy to the extreme of tyranny."

"My policy has been, and will continue to be, while I have the honor to remain in the administration of the government, to be upon friendly terms with, but independent of all the nations of the earth."

"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."

"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism."

"The constitution vests the power of treaties in the President with the advice and consent of the Senate."

"In the opinion of many, the greatest blot on our civilization is the subjection of woman."

"Let women have the ballot and we will have no more laws that degrade her."

"The greatest evil to be endured is the subjection of half the human race."

"The very foundation of our nation rests upon the principle of equality."

"The question of woman's rights is one of the most important of the age."

"Real patriotism means asking hard questions about what this nation truly stands for."

"A nation that prides itself on freedom while denying it to some is a house divided."

"We are not at war with the Islamic world. We are at war with terrorists."

"The doctrines of Europe were that men in numerous associations cannot be restrained within the limits of reason."

"Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its own existence."

"Get the blacks now to vote, to become enfranchised, as it were, and they have got the power to protect themselves."