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Alain de Botton on Politics

“Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.”

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Otto von Bismarck

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“Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.”

Charles de Gaulle

6 quotes

“In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.”

H. L. Mencken

6 quotes

“A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”

Ronald Reagan

6 quotes

“Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.”

Tocqueville

5 quotes

“The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.”

Margaret Thatcher

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“The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.”

George Orwell

4 quotes

“Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.”

Henry Adams

4 quotes

“Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.”

FDR

3 quotes

“Presidents are selected, not elected.”

Buckminster Fuller

2 quotes

“War is the ultimate tool of politics.”

Will Durant

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“The state is the soul of man enlarged under the microscope of history.”

John Kenneth Galbraith

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“Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.”

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