“Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.”
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Otto von Bismarck
9 quotes“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.”
Henry Adams
4 quotes“Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.”
Margaret Thatcher
4 quotes“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.”
FDR
3 quotes“Presidents are selected, not elected.”
Sir Winston Churchill
2 quotes“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
Noam Chomsky
2 quotes“Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.”
Theodore Roosevelt
2 quotes“The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.”