Politics Quotes

"Politics should serve the people, not enslave them."

"The politician who has no purpose is the most dangerous."

"Politics is the art of the possible."

"Politics is the art of the possible."

"Politics without principle is power without purpose."

"The political systems we create often betray the ideals that birthed them."

"Politics is the art of compromise between incompatible dreams."

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."

"The voice of the people is the voice of God."

"Politics should serve the people, not the people serve politics."

"The worst of all trades is to make politics a trade."

"Politics without principle is a dangerous game."

"Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions."

"To steal a horse a man is called a thief, but he who steals from the public treasury is called a statesman."

"Despotism is the only form of government which may with ease be introduced into any state."

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."

"Politics is the art of managing human nature and competing interests."

"Politics succeeds when it serves the common good above faction."

"Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations concerning their own happiness."

"Slaves and mobs have never yet framed a free government."

"Ireland is the bonfire which will some day consume the security of England."

"There are some maxims which should be sacred to nations."

"Women have no characters at all."

"Politics shapes the destiny of nations."

"Politics is the art of compromise."

"Politics demands both principle and pragmatism."

"The laboring classes are not the dangerous classes."

"Politics is the art of making the impossible seem inevitable and the inevitable seem novel."

"Hell is a city much like London."

"O England! O Albion! The Furnaces thy Mills & the Mines."