T. S. Eliot Quotes, Discipline 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.

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His [the President's] office is anything he has the sagacity and force to make it.

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Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

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I am mindful that we're all sinners.

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In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest. That's bad news for everyone else - and for our democracy itself.

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All taxes are a drag on economic growth. It's only a question of degree.

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A Constitution should be short and obscure.

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If the country is to survive as a democracy it will depend on voters who understand how our political institutions have evolved and the events that went into their creation. A nation's sense of its history is indistinguishable from its social cohesion.

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Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.

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

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No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

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The current political tension is very serious. We have not yet ruled out a boycott of the election.

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We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.

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The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.

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The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.

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Tags : Aaron Wildavsky Quotes , Political Quotes , Culture Quotes

Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.

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As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because, in the main, it iswrong; and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money. I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects, in a political contest, the use of some, is both right, and indispensable.

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This is an impressive crowd: the Have's and Have-more's. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base.

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Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

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MULTITUDE, n. A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration.

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