Politics Quotes

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.

Let it be public, full, and fair. No cliqueism or cheatery about it.

The presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses.

The Union, in any event, won't be dissolved. We don't want to dissolve it, and if you attempt it, we won't let you.

Wise councils may accelerate or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later the victory is sure to come

When a man hears himself somewhat misrepresented, it provokes him - at least, I find it so with myself; but when the misrepresentation becomes very gross and palpable, it is more apt to amuse him.

I would despise myself if I supposed myself ready to deal less liberally with an adversary than I was willing to be treated myself.

Douglas is playing cuttlefish, a small species of fish that has no mode of defending itself when pursued except by throwing out a black fluid, which makes the water so dark the enemy cannot see it.

We have enough objects of charity at home, and it is our duty to take care of our own poor, and our own suffering, before we go abroad to intermeddle with other people's business.

Has it not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to Death ?