Politics Quotes

"Politics affects every aspect of our lives, whether we acknowledge it or not."

"Politics is the art of balancing conflicting human needs."

"Politics is the art of making enemies into votes."

"Politics is the art of compromise between conscience and expediency."

"Politics corrupts those who enter it with pure intentions."

"The participation of women in political power is absolutely necessary."

"Politics is the art of dividing people who might otherwise unite."

"Politics is the art of the possible."

"Society rewards conformity and punishes those who dare to think differently."

"A nation is the same people living in the same place."

"The greater the state, the more wrong and illegal the violence upon which it is based."

"Liberalism is the faith of the future."

"Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room."

"What more have I to say; all that I have to declare is that we have inherited this struggle."

"The ghost of Roger Casement is beating on the door."

"The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy."

"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."

"There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community."

"To be even vaguely reformist in outlook in a reactionary period is dangerous."

"Politics, when divorced from truth, becomes tyranny."

"Do you know what Ireland is? Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow."

"Lack of loyalty is one of the principal causes of the ruin of states."

"The feeling of national pride cannot be produced by force."

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

"Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."

"A statesman is an easy man; he tells of war and peace in a rhyming scheme."

"Politics is the art of the possible."

"Politics is often the art of separating people to unite them."

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."