Politics Quotes - Page 20

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

If you want to rebel, rebel from inside the system.That's much more powerful than rebelling outside the system.

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

As government expands, liberty contracts.