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Welcome to these Politic Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
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.
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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
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
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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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
- John F. Kennedy
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
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 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
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and,
in its true sense, a noble one.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
- Winston Churchill
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics
do not know what religion is.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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 are very much like war.
We may even have to use poison gas at times.
- Winston Churchill
Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone
I love not to mix with it.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
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
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
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.
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
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis"
is composed of two characters.
One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
Individually, we are one drop.
Together, we are an ocean.
- Ryunosuke Satoro
Am I not destroying my enemies
when I make friends of them?
- Abraham Lincoln
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 we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
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
If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation
also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Who controls the past controls the future.
Who controls the present controls the past.
- George Orwell
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
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
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
We must learn to live together as brothers
or perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must, indeed, all hang together or,
most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
- Benjamin Franklin
Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.
- West African proverb famously quoted by Theodore Roosevelt
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
A small body of determined spirits
fired by an unquenchable faith
in their mission
can alter the course of history.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is better to displease the people
by doing what you know is right.
- William J. H. Boetcker
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
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
In matters of style, swim with the current;
in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
- Thomas Jefferson
The buck stops here.
- Harry S. Truman
In matters of conscience,
the law of the majority has no place.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We must adjust to changing times
and still hold to unchanging principles.
- Jimmy Carter
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind.
It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction
devised by the ingenuity of man.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
The minority is always stronger than the majority,
because the minority is generally formed by those
who really have an opinion.
- Soren Kierkegaard
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
It is not desirable to cultivate
a respect for the law,
so much as for the right.
- Henry David Thoreau
An instructed and intelligent people
are always more decent and orderly
than an ignorant and stupid one.
- Adam Smith
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
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
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
How could man rejoice in victory
and delight in the slaughter of men?
- Lao Tzu
The hope of a secure and livable world
lies with disciplined nonconformists
who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Let's have faith that right makes might;
and in that faith let us, to the end,
dare to do our duty as we understand it.
- Abraham Lincoln
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
A leader is most effective when people barely know he exists.
When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
his troops will feel they did it themselves.
- Lao Tzu
We win justice quickest by rendering
justice to the other party.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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