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The White Plume of Navarre.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: name given to the New York "Tribune" during the U.S. Civil War
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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: name given to the New York "Tribune" during the U.S. Civil War
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I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober,
second thought of the people shall be law.
Author: Fisher Ames
Source: Speech
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All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
Author: Fisher Ames
Source: Speech
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Man is by nature a political animal.
Author: Fisher Ames
Source: Speech
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Man is by nature a civic animal.
Author: Aristotle
Source: Politics (I, 2)
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Politics are usually the executive expression of human
immaturity.
Author: Vera Brittain
Source: Rebel Passion
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Listen! John A. Logan is the Head Centre, the Hub, the King Pin,
the Main Spring, Mogul, and Mugwump of the final plot by which
partisanship was installed in the Commission.
Author: Isaac Hill Bromley
Source: Editorial in the New York Tribune
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It is necessary that I should qualify the doctrine of its being
not men, but measures, that I am determined to support. In a
monarchy it is the duty of parliament to look at the men as well
as at the measures.
Author: Lord Henry Peter Brougham (Brougham and vaux)
Source: in the House of Commons
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We are Republicans, and don't propose to leave our party and
identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been
Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion.
Author: Samuel Dickinson Burchard
Source: One of the Deputation visiting Mr. Blaine
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You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and
in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of
discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: Reflexions on the Revolution in France (vol. III, p. 277)
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Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontent
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Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.
Author: John Caldwell Calhoun
Source: in a speech delivered in the House of Representatives
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Away with the cant of "Measures not men!"--the idle supposition
that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot
along. No Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the
distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures
comparatively nothing.
Author: George Canning
Source: in a speech against the Addington Ministry
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A minister who moves about in society is in a position to read
the signs of the times even in a festive gathering, but one who
remains shut up in his office learns nothing.
Author: Duc de Choiseul
Source: in Jack F. Bernard's "Talleyrand" (1973)
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One of the greatest Romans, when asked where were his politics,
replied, "Imperium et libertas." That would not make a bad
programme for a British Ministry.
Author: Sir Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill
Source: in a speech at Randolph House, London
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The Duty of an Opposition is to oppose.
Author: Sir Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill
Source: in a speech at Randolph House, London
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Here the two great interests Imperium et Libertas, res olim
insociabiles (saith Tacitus), began to incounter each other.
Author: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (3)
Source: Divi Britannici (p. 849)
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I am of the opinion which you have always held, that "viva voce"
voting at elections is the best method.
[Lat., Nam ego in ista sum sententia, qua te fuisse semper scio,
nihil ut feurit in suffragiis voce melius.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Legibus (III, 15)
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There are no true friends in politics.
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Legibus (III, 15)
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Party honesty is party expediency.
Author: Steven Grover Cleveland
Source: in a interview in the "New York Commercial Advertiser"
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It is a condition which confronts us--not a theory.
Author: Steven Grover Cleveland
Source: Annual Message
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Let it alone. Let it pass by.
[Lat., Laissez faire, laissez passer.]
Author: Jean Baptiste Colbert
Source: according to Lord John Russell, see report of his speech in London "Times", Apr. 2, 1840
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Finality is not the language of politics.
Author: Jean Baptiste Colbert
Source: according to Lord John Russell, see report of his speech in London "Times", Apr. 2, 1840
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In politics nothing is contemptible.
Author: Jean Baptiste Colbert
Source: according to Lord John Russell, see report of his speech in London "Times", Apr. 2, 1840
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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Author: Henry Kissinger
Source: None
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Author: General Dwight David Eisenhower
Source: None
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The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
Author: Winston Churchill
Source: None
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England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.
Author: Edward Abbey
Source: None
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Author: Charles DeGaulle
Source: None
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Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Author: Ronald Reagan
Source: None
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The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.
Author: Will Rogers
Source: None
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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
Author: Paul Valery
Source: None
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Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.
Author: Alfred E Newman
Source: None
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Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Author: Ronald Reagan
Source: None
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The word "politics" is derived from the word "poly", meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.
Author: Larry Hardiman
Source: None
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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
Author: Ernest Benn
Source: None
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Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Author: Lester B Pearson
Source: None
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Source: None
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Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.
Author: Will Rogers
Source: None
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Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
Author: Barry Goldwater
Source: None
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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
Author: Henry Adams
Source: None
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One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Author: Plato
Source: None
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Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.
Author: Paul Valery
Source: None
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
Author: Napoleon I. Bonaparte
Source: None
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Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
Author: George Jean Nathan
Source: None
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