Politics / Government Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

747 Politics / Government Quotes
“I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I speak the truth, and they never believe me.”
Di Cavour Quotes
“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me. But it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.”
Martin Luther King Quotes
“Politics is not an exact science.”
Otto von Bismarck Quotes
“Politics is the art of the possible.”
Otto von Bismarck Quotes
“A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.”
Eric Hoffer Quotes
“In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.”
Mark Twain Quotes
“Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat myself.”
Mark Twain Quotes
“Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.”
Confucius Quotes
“We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.”
Mark Twain Quotes
“We are the people our parents warned us about.”
Jimmy Buffett Quotes
“For every prohibition you create you also create an underground.”
Jello Biafra Quotes
“CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disgrace before meat.”
Otto von Bismarck Quotes
“The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.”
Steven Biko Quotes
“I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.”
Socrates Quotes
“What you cannot enforce, do not command.”
Socrates Quotes
“Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.”
Otto Von Bismark Quotes
“If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.”
Socrates Quotes
“Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.”
Samuel Adams Quotes
“...this is precisely the purpose of censorship- not only to block unwanted views, but to keep people who are unhappy from knowing how many millions of others share their unhappiness; to keep the dormant opposition from awakening to its own developing strength.”
Hedrick Smith Quotes
“The plans differ; the planners are all alike...”
Frederic Bastiat Quotes
“...tradition and custom becomes intertwined and are a strong coercion which directs the society upon fixed lines, and strangles liberty.”
William Graham Sumner Quotes
“...as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.”
Edward Gibbon Quotes
“The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.”
Henry Hazlitt Quotes
“Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far.”
Thomas Sowell Quotes
“Policies are judged by their consequences, but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel.”
Thomas Sowell Quotes
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