George W. Bush Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Political Quotes

I think by not participating in the current political debate, hopefully I'm sending a signal that will help set a tone.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Political Quotes

Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Giving Quotes , Political Quotes

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Donne Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Political Quotes

But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Discipline Quotes , Political Quotes

In war the first casualty is the truth.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aeschylus Quotes , War Quotes , Political Quotes

Religion-freedom-vengeance-what you will, A word's enough to raise mankind to kill.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Political Quotes , Vengeance Quotes

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Political Quotes , Public Opinion Quotes

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Humor Quotes , Political Quotes

I don't bring God into my life to - to, you know, kind of be a political person.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , God Quotes , Political Quotes

The sneaking arts of underling tradesmen are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire; for it is the most underling tradesmen only who make it a rule to employ chiefly their own customers. A great trader purchases his good always where they are cheapest and best, without regard to any little interest of this kind.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Art Quotes , Political Quotes

I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abdelaziz Bouteflika Quotes , Political Will Quotes , Political Quotes

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Political Quotes , Civil War Quotes

That's a chapter - the last chapter - of the 20th ... 20th ... the 21st century that most of us would rather forget. The last chapter of the 20th century. This is the first chapter of the 21st century.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Humor Quotes , Political Quotes

...there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Political Quotes

Our vulnerability to Russia or any other foreign power is directly related to how divided, partisan, dysfunctional our political process is. That's the thing that makes us vulnerable.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Russia Quotes , Political Quotes

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , War Quotes , Political Quotes

Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Giving Quotes , Political Quotes

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Political Quotes , Consistency Quotes

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Party Quotes , Political Quotes

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Power Quotes , Political Quotes