Politics Quotes

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Philosopher

“Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.”

Life Political Politics

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Edmund Burke

Philosopher, Politician

“For as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other; and when men are left no way of ascertaining their profits but by their means of obtaining them, those means will be increased to infinity.”

Mean Politics Power

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Winston Churchill

Politician, Writer, Historian

“Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.”

War Politics

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Winston Churchill

Politician, Writer, Historian

“it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.”

People Government

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William Shakespeare

Playwright, Poet

“A politician... one that would circumvent God.”

God Politics Politician

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Edmund Burke

Philosopher, Politician

“The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.”

Interesting Wisdom Politics

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W. Somerset Maugham

Novelist, Playwright

“It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.”

Politics Politician Society

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William James

Philosopher, Psychologist

“The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.”

Happiness Politics Society

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Winston Churchill

Politician, Writer, Historian

“In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy.”

Men Politics France

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Winston Churchill

Politician, Writer, Historian

“Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections.”

Government House Politics

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Woodrow Wilson

Politician

“If you think too much about being re-elected, it is very difficult to be worth re-electing.”

Thinking Political Politics

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Woodrow Wilson

Politician

“Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.”

Political Politics Campaigns

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