Politics Quotes

Nothing has changed in Russia policy. Her methods, her tactics, her maneuvers may change, but the pole starworld domination is immutable.

In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

Parliamentary cretinism: that peculiar malady which since 1848 has raged all over the Continent, which holds those infected by it fast in an imaginary world and robs them of all sense, all memory, all understanding of the rude external world.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.

People's Fury is above all the furies.

Every neighbouring state is an enemy and the enemy's enemy is a friend.

It may be long before the law of love will be recognized in international affairs. The machinery's of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another.

Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.

Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. ... that of being truly esteemed of my fellow‑men.

The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think ... to this day, I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery.

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union ... If I could save the Union without freeing any slave... if I could save it by freeing all the slaves... I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration... can very seriously injure the government

I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms, (by no means excluding females.)

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burthens.