Famous quotes by Politicians

"It's no use crying over spilt summits"

Harold Macmillan, Politician

Harold Macmillan

"If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly not get it from their politicians"

Harold Macmillan, Politician

Harold Macmillan

"A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts"

Harold Macmillan, Politician

Harold Macmillan

"When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests"

J. William Fulbright, Politician

J. William Fulbright

"Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations"

J. William Fulbright, Politician

J. William Fulbright

"The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high"

J. William Fulbright, Politician

J. William Fulbright

"Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence"

J. William Fulbright, Politician

J. William Fulbright

"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything"

Alexander Hamilton, Politician

Alexander Hamilton

"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased"

Alexander Hamilton, Politician

Alexander Hamilton

"Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike"

Alexander Hamilton, Politician

Alexander Hamilton

"Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal"

Alexander Hamilton, Politician

Alexander Hamilton

"It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government"

Alexander Hamilton, Politician

Alexander Hamilton

"In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution"

Alexander Hamilton, Politician

Alexander Hamilton

"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself"

Alexander Hamilton, Politician

Alexander Hamilton

"Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives"

Alexander Hamilton, Politician

Alexander Hamilton

"A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous"

Alexander Hamilton, Politician

Alexander Hamilton

"A promise must never be broken"

Alexander Hamilton, Politician

Alexander Hamilton

"Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved"

Bill Bradley, Politician

Bill Bradley

"There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is"

Bill Bradley, Politician

Bill Bradley

"Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models"

Bill Bradley, Politician

Bill Bradley

"Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous"

Bill Bradley, Politician

Bill Bradley

"This land, this water, this air, this planet - this is our legacy to our young"

Paul Tsongas, Politician

Paul Tsongas

"No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy"

Brad Henry, Politician

Brad Henry

"No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis"

Brad Henry, Politician

Brad Henry

"The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep"

Chanakya, Politician

Chanakya

"There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth"

Chanakya, Politician

Chanakya

"Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic, spiritual, and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally"

Christian Lous Lange, Politician

Christian Lous Lange

"Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a concept of how the nations ought to organize their mutual relations"

Christian Lous Lange, Politician

Christian Lous Lange

"A man is great by deeds, not by birth"

Chanakya, Politician

Chanakya

"Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune"

Chanakya, Politician

Chanakya

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