Politics and Government Quotes

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

The world is governed by opinion

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies

The post of honour is a private station

There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay

Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty