The Best Politics Quotes – Part 2

April 24th, 2013 10:40 pm by Dr John

1. You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time – Abraham Lincoln

2. Democracy: Where any two idiots outvote a genius – Unknown

3. Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have – Winston Churchill

4. One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors – Plato

5. If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand – Milton Friedman

6. It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything – Joseph Stalin

7. It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence – Mahatma Gandhi

8. Seven Deadly Sins – Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Science without humanity. Knowledge without character. Politics without Principle. Commerce without morality. Worship without Sacrifice – Mahatma Gandhi

9. Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost – John Quincy Adams

10. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward – Franklin D. Roosevelt

11. If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don’t ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers – Nelson Mandela

12. It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs – Albert Einstein

13. I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the Politicians – Charles De Gaulle

14. We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy – Martin L. Gross

15. I have come to the conclusion that Politics are too Serious a matter to be left to the Politicians – Charles De Gaulle

16. One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician’s objective. Election and power are – Cal Thomas

17. Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely – Lord Acton

18. It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the Peace – Aristotle

19. Great leaders passed away, politicians made their way – Yssubramanyam

20. Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other – Oscar Ameringer