Politics Quotes

People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow. He cannot make business good, although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way

One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.

Votes should be weighed not counted.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That’s the only way you can get elected.

How do you think the transition from the present situation to community of Property is to be effected? The first, fundamental condition for the introduction of community of property is the political liberation of the proletariat through a democratic constitution.