Politics / Government Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

747 Politics / Government Quotes
“Against nature and within nature there is no freedom.”
Ludwig von Mises Quotes
“The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air.”
Ludwig von Mises Quotes
“Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simple nature. We must learn to be free, to organize the random and detect the reflexive, to acquire the knowledge of particulars and the powers of reason. The examined life is impossible if we cannot examine, order, classify, define, distinguish, always in minute particulars.”
Richard Mitchell Quotes
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”
Dwight D Eisenhower Quotes
“The right to be heard does not autmatically include the right to be taken seriously.”
Hubert Humphrey Quotes
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."N. B.: This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing. - The Friends of Voltaire.”
S. G. Tallentyre Quotes
“Tourists are terrorists with cameras. Terrorists are tourists with guns.”
Anonymous Quotes
“For target shooting, that's okay. Get a license and go to the range. For defense of the home, that's why we have police departments.”
James Brady Quotes
“Expecting a carjacker or rapist or drug pusher to care that his possession or use of a gun is unlawful is like expecting a terrorist to care that his car bomb is taking up two parking spaces. - "Usenet posting in talk.politics.guns".”
Joseph T. Chew Quotes
“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. - Beyond the Horizon, 1942.”
Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
“I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. - Last words, October 12, 1915.”
Edith Cavell Quotes
“To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.”
Anonymous Quotes
“The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed. - Reflections on Life.”
Alexis Carrel Quotes
“The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people.”
Hair Quotes
“I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.”
William Westmoreland Quotes
“For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business. - The American Character.”
D. W. Brogan Quotes
“I have not yet begun to fight!”
John Paul Jones Quotes
“Up men to your posts! Don't forget today that you are from old Virginia. - Gettysburg, July 3, 1863.”
Gen. George Pickett Quotes
“Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.”
William Proxmire Quotes
“All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.”
Harry S Truman Quotes
“He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.”
Henry B. Adams Quotes
“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.”
Isaac Asimov Quotes
“As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.”
Daniel J. Boorstin Quotes
“People cut themselves off from their ties of the old life when they come to Los Angeles. They are looking for a place where they can be free, where they can do things they couldn't do anywhere else.”
Tom Bradley Quotes
“Television is democracy at its ugliest.”
Paddy Chayevsky Quotes
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