politics Quotes

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.

Where liberty is, there is my country.

The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.