In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
Alan WattsThe attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert EinsteinNo Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
Benjamin DisraeliThere is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaAnyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
Karl MarxTherefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
Queen Elizabeth IIBehind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
Theodore RooseveltGermany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
Theodore RooseveltThe most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
Thomas SowellWinning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.
Jurgen KloppHistory is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
John F. KennedyPolitics is the entertainment branch of industry.
Frank ZappaThe first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
Thomas SowellI have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
Hunter S. ThompsonIf you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
Will RogersCommodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.
Robert KiyosakiSuppose I criticise Iran. What impact does that have? The only impact it has is in fortifying those who want to carry out policies I don’t agree with, like bombing.
Noam ChomskyNo body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.
Francis BaconDemocracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
H. L. MenckenYou cannot mix sports with politics.
Jackie ChanBeing elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.
Abraham LincolnThe spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Thomas JeffersonI believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.
John F. KennedyPolitical necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
George Bernard ShawHonor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
Herbert HooverEvery decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
H. L. MenckenEvery government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
Thomas JeffersonRomney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know.
Clint EastwoodThe New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.
Herbert HooverThe Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.
VoltaireIf I had a time machine, I’d visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens.
Stephen HawkingIf you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.
Robert GreeneHistory, a distillation of rumour.
Thomas CarlyleI almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
Fidel CastroI’ve got nothing against records – I’ve spent my life making them – but they are a kind of historical blip.
Brian EnoThe intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
Noam ChomskyThe 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.
Joe BidenHistory does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Karl MarxI don’t like politicians, and I don’t like politics. I definitely don’t want to be associated with any of them.
Steven WrightThe Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation, and they got infected with malaria, and partly ‚cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field.
Bill GatesThe totalitarian, to me, is the enemy – the one that’s absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.
Christopher HitchensYou can’t be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who’s for you and who’s against you.
Samuel JohnsonHistory has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
B. C. ForbesThe best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
VoltaireI think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can’t be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down because they’re not getting some other matter.
Warren BuffettThese people are very unskilled in arms… with 50 men they could all be subjected and made to do all that one wished.
Christopher ColumbusPower is not sufficient evidence of truth.
Samuel JohnsonThere isn’t a single player I would pay to watch. You can say Thierry Henry, he’s a fabulous striker, with pace and power, but a great entertainer needs to have charisma, too. Does he have charisma? No.
George BestFortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
Julius CaesarThe practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
Benjamin DisraeliExperience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas JeffersonPolitics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald ReaganPower is a complicated word and can take many forms.
Robert GreeneI found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
Narendra ModiI guess you’d call me an independent, since I’ve never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
Jackie RobinsonWhen anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.
Billy GrahamI’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.
Richard M. NixonI have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.
Henry AdamsAll the political angst and moral melodrama about getting ‚the rich‘ to pay ‚their fair share‘ is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.
Thomas SowellIn my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.
Abraham Lincoln