Friday 24 June 2011

Political - Sayings and Quotes

Political quotes and sayings are required very badly to know all about politics. 
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
- Mahtma Gandhi
If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.
- Adolf Hitler
We, the people, are the rightful masters of both congress and the courts – not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the constitution.
- Abe Lincoln
We know that this mad dog of the Middle East has a goal of a world revolution.
- Ronald Reagan
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
- John F. Kennedy
Those few days after Kent State were among the darkest of my presidency.
- Richard Nixon
Success is the sole earthly judge of right or wrong.
- Adolf Hitler
I detest war; it ruins conversation
- Bernard Fontenelle
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
- George Bernard Shaw
Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
- Robert Orben
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
- George Orwell
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
- George Orwell
Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
- George Orwell
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
- George Orwell
To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.
- George Orwell
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
- Napoleon
The believer is happy, the doubter wise.
- Greek Proverb
Those who fail to fail to learn history, are doomed to repeat it.
- Wilston Churchill
Education, Education, Education(well known mantra)
- Tony Blair
Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
- Lord Kelvin
Honey, I forgot to duck
- President Reagan to his wife, Nancy after being shot
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
- George Orwell
If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House—with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
- John F Kennedy
If a book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But for God’s sake, let us freely hear both sides if we choose.
- Thomas Jefferson to N. G. Dufief 
Truth between candid minds can never do harm.
- Thomas Jefferson
The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
- George Orwell
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mahatama Gandhi
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
- Alexander Hamilton
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston Churchill
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
- Abraham Lincoln
You are remembered for the rules you break.
- Douglas MacArthur
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
- Napoleon
Reading is the basics for all learning.
- George W. Bush
In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
- Nelson Mandela
I have opinions of my own – strong opinions – but I don’t always agree with them.
- George Bush
Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.
- President Gerald Ford
I’m not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.
- Hillary Clinton
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
- G.B. Shaw
Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that.
- Bill Clinton
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Sir Winston Churchill
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
- Abraham Lincoln
We’re concerned about AIDS inside our White House-make no mistake about it.
- George W. Bush
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m beginning to believe it.
-Clarence Darrow
The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.
-Maureen Murphy
Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.
-Winston Churchill
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
- Abraham Lincoln
We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.
- Martin L. Gross
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
- Arthur C. Clarke
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
- Charles de Gaulle
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
- George Jean Nathan
A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.
- James Freeman Clarke,
We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
- Isaac Newton
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
- Mao Tse Tung
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
- Aesop
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
- Mao Tse Tung
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where they is no river.
- Nikita
The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.
- Maureen Murphy
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere.
- Hermione Gingold
An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
- Confucius
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.
- John F. Kennedy
The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.
- Clare Boothe Luce
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
- Woodrow Wilson
During a campaign the air is full of speeches – and vice versa.
- Anonymous
Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
- George Will
Democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
- Winston Churchill
A politician will stand for what he thinks people will fall for.
- Anonymous
No government can be long secure without formidable opposition.
- Benjamin Disraeli


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