Quotes about Politics

It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body of the people, is the supreme object to be pursued.

For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution. And

Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires.

The inference to which we are brought is, that the CAUSES of faction cannot be removed, and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its EFFECTS. If

The inference to which we are brought is, that the causes of faction cannot be removed, and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its effects.

Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to perform its most essential functions. A complete power, therefore, to procure a regular and adequate supply of it, as far as the resources of the community will permit, may be regarded as an indispensable ingredient in every constitution.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.

Putin sought to keep Ukraine weak through corruption.

That said, I have come to believe that the more committed one is to leftism, the more likely one is to become meaner.

I'm not a political person that much, but I've got common sense. I know when something's not right.

Protestants so often confuse being Republican with being Christian.