Quotes about Politics
The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.
— John Adams
I think the platform ought to be pro-life. It is the basis of the Republican Party. People have got to understand that abortion is not a contraceptive.
— George W. Bush
However long I serve in public life, I'll stand on that basic liberty of the right to keep and bear arms.
— Mike Pence
Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
I think people have a need to feel good about the country they live in, but what's happening, I think, is that that need - which is a good thing - is getting manipulated and exploited.
— Ronald Reagan
If more government is the answer, then it was a really stupid question.
— Ronald Reagan
After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.
— Andrew Jackson
We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
— Alexander Hamilton
The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
— Adrian Rogers
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
— Thomas Jefferson
A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.
— Franklin Pierce
To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
— James Madison