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4888 Politician Quotes

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Lie Life Moderation Pleasures
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There is no index of character so sure as the voice.

Character Sure Voice
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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
Fear Most New NewWord
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My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Agree Agreeable Idea Me
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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Agents Circumstances Creature Creatures
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Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Believe Great Heroes Heroic
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The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

His Life Man Opportunity
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To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

Advantage Class Community Plunder
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Silence is the mother of truth.
Mother Silence Truth
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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

End Ever First Ignorance
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Ages Experience Quotations Wisdom
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An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

About Almost Author Bad
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The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

Opportunity Ready Secret Success
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Man is only great when he acts from passion.
Acts Great He Man
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One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

His Life Man Opportunity
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If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

About Gloomy Go Grief
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Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

Above Amusing Long Never
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Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
Attempt Become Beware Fearful
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To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Conscious Facts Great Ignorant
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In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.

Change Constant Country Inevitable
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Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Advantage Important ImportantThing Know
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Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
Beauty Elegance Magnificence Splendor
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If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.

Clever Should Very You
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The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

About Affairs Am Concern
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A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

Both Career Commons Course
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I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Accountable Exercise Exist ForThePeople
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Justice is truth in action.
Action Justice Truth
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The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

Cottage Happy Palace Safe
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Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

Between Different Each Feelings
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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

Correct Critical Easier Much
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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.

Anticipate Expect Generally Happens
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Never take anything for granted.

Anything Granted Never NeverTake
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A precedent embalms a principle.

Precedent Principle
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William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

Defect Redeeming Single William
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The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

Degraded Democracy Politicians Statesmen
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Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
Convenient Forgotten Him Nobody
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Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.
Comedy Fraud Phantom Socialism
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War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

Believe Man Maternity Peace
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The Liberal State is a mask behind which there is no face; it is a scaffolding behind which there is no building.

Behind Building Face Liberal
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We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.

Become Feel Friends Guidance
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All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.

Against Nothing Outside State
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The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.

Best Blood Fool Get
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The truth is that men are tired of liberty.
Liberty Men Tired Truth
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The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.

Citizen Function Inseparable Soldier
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Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism.

Century Fascism History Known
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Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity, quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace.

Apart Believes Considerations Considers
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War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.

Alone Brings Courage Energies
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It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

Battle Even Folded Great
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The mass, whether it be a crowd or an army, is vile.
Army Crowd Mass Vile
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Inactivity is death.

Death Inactivity
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