Quotes about Politics
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
— Aristotle
All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants.
— Alexander Hamilton
Our hope is not in the man we put in the White House but in the Man we put on the Cross.
— Rick Warren
Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.
— Ayn Rand
We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.
— Will Rogers
No reasonable man, much less a Christian, can or should take part in the efforts of Communists and Socialists
— CF Walther
It is vain to say that enlightened statesmen will always be able to adjust their interests. Enlightened men will not always be at the helm.
— James Madison
No political party can or ought to exist when one of its corner-stones is opposition to freedom of thought and to the right to worship God "according to the dictate of one's own conscience," or according to the creed of any religious denomination whatever. Nevertheless, if a sect sets up its laws as binding above the State laws, wherever the two come in conflict this claim must be resisted and suppressed at whatever cost.
— Ulysses S. Grant
No political party can or ought to exist when one of its cornerstones is opposition to freedom of thought and to the right to worship God "according to the dictate of one's own conscience," or according to the creed of any religious denomination whatever.
— Ulysses S. Grant
Certainly, I approve of political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop.
— Victor Hugo
Bonapartist democrat. Grey shades of a quiet mouse colour.
— Victor Hugo