Politics Quotes

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

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

"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."

"What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?"

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it."

"The law is the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being."

"Go anywhere in England where there are political prisoners and you will find that the locks and bolts are on the outside of the cell doors, and the prisoners are not under lock and key and the chains but under the conviction that they are free."

"A surgeon is careful not to take out more of the living flesh than is necessary; but a politician is not thus bound."

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

"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."

"Those who have been once intoxicated with power and have derived any kind of emolument from it can never willingly abandon it."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation."

"He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That clearly points to a political career."

"A politician is an acrobat; he keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does."

"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."

"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."

"Our national advantages are passing into the hands of those who know nothing of them"

"Politics without principle is merely power-seeking."

"The art of government is the organization of idolatry."

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it."

"You cannot be a Power in the world while you are wage slaves to a capitalist class."

"Voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with consequences."

"Europe is becoming much more like America every day, which of course is a very good thing."

"One doesn't know how much one hates one's own country till one leaves it."

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble"

"I believe in the future triumph of democracy and social justice."

"Democracy requires eternal vigilance."

"Every revolutionary social movement has been blessed by poets."

"Politics is the art of the possible."

"The wretched employ welfare as a check on honesty."