Politics Quotes

"Politics is the art of making the best of bad choices."

"Politics is the art of making the impossible possible through compromise"

"The human condition is the only politics I know."

"Everything is art. Everything is politics."

"The only legitimate use of a government is to protect man's rights."

"The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopian plans they might establish, no less than the mightiest empire must provide a multitude of wholesome restraints."

"True patriotism consists in the desire to improve one's country."

"Politics corrupts the pure of heart."

"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."

"The worst form of government is the one you are currently living under."

"Politics is theater for those who can't act."

"Politics is organized theft."

"Nationalism is when hate for one people is elevated to the level of a virtue."

"Politics is the art of compromise; it requires wisdom to know when to stand firm and when to yield."

"The promise of socialism is that it will overcome alienation."

"Patriotism is not the hate of other nations, but the love of your own."

"Politics is the art of preventing people from minding their own business."

"When the wealthy make laws, they make them for the poor."

"The preservation of the state is the supreme law."

"The more corrupt the republic, the more laws it needs."

"In democracies, the voice of the people is the voice of God."

"Despotism is the easiest government."

"Politics is the art of the possible, but the possible is sometimes invisible"

"Politics begins where groups of human beings coexist"

"Politics is the art of making people believe they want what you want."

"Politics is the art of compromise without surrendering principles."

"I love my country too much to be a nationalist."

"The corruption of republics begins with the decay of the principles upon which they were founded."

"There are three kinds of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic."

"The spirit of a nation can be destroyed by the spirit of laws."