Politics Quotes
Power, governance, and the messy business of organizing human societies.
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"Democracy is the one form of government where the people have a right to complain."Sinclair Lewis
"The intersection of politics and morality is where true leadership is tested."F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The masses are easily swayed by those who understand their deepest fears."Theodore Dreiser
"Slavery is not merely a political institution, but a moral one."Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Politics is the art of compelling others to serve your interests while believing it is their own."Theodore Dreiser
"A nation's character is revealed not in its prosperity but in its adversity."Sinclair Lewis
"Politics is the art of arranging human affairs."Sinclair Lewis
"Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling."Louisa May Alcott
"So much has been said and written about woman's rights that I am positively sick of it."Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Politics should serve the common good."James Fenimore Cooper
"Politics shapes the destiny of peoples."James Fenimore Cooper
"Our American dream has been narrowed by the very people who claimed to protect it."Sinclair Lewis
"Every man is a debtor to his time and his country."Sinclair Lewis
"Politics affects our daily lives in ways we often overlook."Louisa May Alcott
"Society creates the very problems it claims to solve."Theodore Dreiser
"Politics, at its worst, is the art of taking what belongs to all."James Fenimore Cooper
"Society's rules are the chains we forge for ourselves."Edith Wharton
"Politics is the stage upon which human nature performs."Edith Wharton
"Let every man and woman count themselves a stake holder in the future of America."Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Politics should serve the people, not the other way around."Louisa May Alcott
"Politics, at its best, is the art of creating a just society."Louisa May Alcott
"Politics should serve the people, not the people serve politics."James Fenimore Cooper
"Politics at its best elevates the human spirit; at worst, it degrades it."James Fenimore Cooper
"The successful candidate is one who understands that the voter's interest is always supreme."Willa Cather
"The most important agency of good government is public opinion."Harriet Beecher Stowe
"In the life of any nation, there come moments when the stakes could not be higher."James Fenimore Cooper
"In politics, as in life, integrity is the currency that never depreciates in value."Washington Irving
"In politics as in life, principle must precede pragmatism, or we become servants of circumstances."Washington Irving
"Politics is the art of convincing others that lies are truth."Edgar Allan Poe
"The real America is in the hearts of the people."Walt Whitman