A. J. P. Taylor Quotes, Years Quotes, Political Quotes

In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.

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I wasn't lucky. I deserved it.

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An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters.

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I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science.

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Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.

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Both President Kennedy and President Reagan were roundly criticized by parts of the foreign policy establishment that felt they were being weak by engaging our adversaries. So some of it is built into a political lexicon that makes you sound tougher if you don't talk to somebody, and rather, very loudly, wield a big stick.

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Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

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A Constitution should be short and obscure.

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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.

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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.)

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I am mindful that we're all sinners.

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If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first.

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If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.

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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

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Politics, as a trade, finds most and leaves nearly all dishonest.

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We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom.

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Let me put it to you this way, I am not a revengeful person.

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There ought to be limits to freedom.

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Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

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Enlist the interests of stern Morality and religious Enthusiasm in the cause of Political Liberty, as in the time of the old Puritans, and it will be irresistible.

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