Famous quotes by Politicians

"The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... And this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"We have confused the free with the free and easy"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

George Savile, Politician

"Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much"

George Savile, Politician

"Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view"

George Savile, Politician

"Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side"

George Savile, Politician

"No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool"

George Savile, Politician

"Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding"

George Savile, Politician

"Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it"

George Savile, Politician

"Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them"

George Savile, Politician

"He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things"

George Savile, Politician

"Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught"

George Savile, Politician

"A princely mind will undo a private family"

George Savile, Politician

"A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting"

George Savile, Politician

"When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters"

George Savile, Politician

"There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it"

George Savile, Politician

"The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead"

George Savile, Politician

"The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject"

George Savile, Politician

"The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past"

George Savile, Politician

"Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes"

George Savile, Politician

"To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

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