Politics Quotes

I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

If this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle - I was about to say I would rather be assassinated on this spot than to surrender it.

In great contests, each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

Cruelty impresses, people want to be afraid of something. They want someone to whom they can submit with a shudder, the masses need that. They need something to dread.

A single blow must destroy the enemy... without regard of losses... a gigantic all-destroying blow.

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.

For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people... but by the effect it exerts on the people.

Best wishes for your personal well-being as well as for the prosperous future of the peoples of the friendly Soviet Union.

The American president increasingly used his influence to create conflicts, intensify existing conflicts, and, above all, to keep conflicts from being resolved peacefully. For years this man looked for a dispute anywhere in the world, but preferably in Europe, that he could use to create political entanglements with American economic obligations to one of the contending sides, which would then steadily involve America in the conflict and thus divert attention from his own confused domestic economic policies.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

India's struggle for technological self sufficiency and defensive autonomy-a story as much about politics, domestic and international, as it is about science.

Don't pretend to be a candle, be a moth. Know the power hidden in serving. We seem to have got stuck with external forms of politics and mistaking them to be nation-building. It is the sacrifices, toil and valour that and seldom shown or seen that truly makes a nation.

Many challenges need to be responded to: the emergence of multiparty coalitions as a regular form of government that need to rapidly evolve as a stable, two-party system.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.