Politics Quotes

Power, governance, and the messy business of organizing human societies.

14518 quotes

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"I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role"
Eleanor Roosevelt
E
"Democracy is not simply a voting mechanism"
Eleanor Roosevelt
J
"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic."
Joseph Stalin
J
"The goal of socialism is communism."
Joseph Stalin
J
"Revolution demands total commitment."
Joseph Stalin
B
"The state is the absolute, the individual is the relative."
Benito Mussolini
B
"Fascism is a religion; the twentieth century will be known as the century of Fascism."
Benito Mussolini
B
"We are not democrats, we are not liberals, we are fascists."
Benito Mussolini
B
"Duty to the state supersedes all personal considerations."
Benito Mussolini
B
"The Italian race is destined to rule the world."
Benito Mussolini
B
"The individual is nothing; the collective is everything."
Benito Mussolini
B
"The state exists to make its citizens great."
Benito Mussolini
B
"The nation's interests transcend all personal concerns."
Benito Mussolini
B
"Democracy is a disease that weakens the state."
Benito Mussolini
"Swaraj means emancipation from the English yoke."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Democracy is the best form of government."
Mahatma Gandhi
W
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
Winston Churchill
W
"Some regard private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot down, while others see it as a cow to be milked."
Winston Churchill
W
"Most of the world's troubles are due to politics and politicians."
Winston Churchill
W
"A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year."
Winston Churchill
W
"Democracy means that if there are nine able individuals and one idiot, you have to listen to the idiot."
Winston Churchill
"Democracy itself is under siege by our own hands."
Martin Luther King Jr.
F
"A true patriot does not confuse government's interests with country's interests."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
F
"We have nothing to fear but fear itself and the policies of my opponents."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
F
"Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
F
"Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
F
"There are as many forms of patriotism as there are ways of thinking about the future."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
F
"The greatest danger to our institutions comes not from the radicals of the left, but from the blind reactionaries of the right."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
F
"I would like to see every piece of legislation that affects the public interest prefaced with a welfare clause."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
F
"The moment a mere numerical superiority by either liberals or conservatives emerges in parliament, the savings are doomed."
Franklin D. Roosevelt