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Politics Quote of the Day

Welcome to these Politics Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

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When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and,
in its true sense, a noble one.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions
are in almost every case gotten at second hand,
and without examination
- Mark Twain

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
- Albert Einstein

In war, you can only be killed once,
but in politics, many times.
- Winston Churchill

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk
about women who are active in politics,
whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
- John F. Kennedy

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous.
In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
- Winston Churchill

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone
I love not to mix with it.
- Thomas Jefferson

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Politics are very much like war.
We may even have to use poison gas at times.
- Winston Churchill

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics
do not know what religion is.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
- John F. Kennedy

War is the ultimate tool of politics.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

I am never going to have anything more to do
with politics or politicians.
When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely
to writing and painting.
- Winston Churchill

I was losing interest in politics,
when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again.
What I have done since then is pretty well known.
- Abraham Lincoln

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
- Winston Churchill

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen
who would protect the rights and privileges of free people
and who would preserve what is
good and fruitful in our national heritage.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
(and hence clamorous to be led to safety)
by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins,
all of them imaginary.
- H. L. Mencken

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up
in our politics and say definite things which mean something,
or whether we shall always go on using generalities
to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?
Expediency asks the question - is it politic?
Vanity asks the question - is it popular?
But conscience asks the question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position
that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular;
but one must take it BECAUSE it is right.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

When we step on the battlefield, I will be
The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.
- LtG. Hal Moore

Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy

Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe,
our class, and our nation;
and this means we must develop a world perspective.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor

Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro

If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek,
but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela

Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln

To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today;
it is rather the vital necessity of action today
to ensure our strength tomorrow.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war
is nothing but an act of murder.
- Albert Einstein

The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
- Sun Tzu

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

We must adjust to changing times
and still hold to unchanging principles.
- Jimmy Carter

We must learn to live together as brothers
or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I must dedicate my life to teaching my people,
for only education would make their lot less bitter,
their latent power more strong.
- Jimmy Yen

The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill

It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau

A leader is best when people barely know he exists;
when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say: we did it ourselves.
- Lao Tzu

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be,
at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

We must teach our children to resolve
their conflicts with words, not weapons.
- William J. Clinton

We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin

It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker

The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy

An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus

I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will
not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt

We win justice quickest by rendering
justice to the other party.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

We work with the people not out of pity
but out of respect for their potential for growth and development,
both as individuals and as communities.
- Jimmy Yen

You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett

Unless both sides win,
no agreement can be permanent.
- Jimmy Carter

The problems of the world cannot possibly
be solved by skeptics or cynics
whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities.
We need men who can dream of things that never were.
- John F. Kennedy

The probability that we may fail
in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- Abraham Lincoln

The supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past
have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
- George S. Patton

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
- John F. Kennedy

The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill

The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman

Be a yardstick of quality.
Some people aren't used to an environment
where excellence is expected.
- Steve Jobs

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie