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The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.
-Ben C. Bradlee
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The most important political office is that of private citizen.
-Louis D. Brandeis
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The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.
-Jimmy Breslin
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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
-Vera Brittain
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A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
-Fawn M. Brodie
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Any established village; could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.
-Denis E. Brogan
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A liberal is a man who leaves a room when the fight begins.
-Heywood Broun
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It doesn't matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.
-Jerry Brown
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Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.
-Jean De La Bruyere
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I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
-William Jennings Bryan
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No wonder that, when a political career is so precarious, men of worth and capacity hesitate to embrace it. They cannot afford to be thrown out of their life's course by a mere accident.
-James Bryce
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
-Edmund Burke
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
-Edmund Burke
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
-Edmund Burke
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
-Edmund Burke
Speech on Conciliation with America: The Thirteen Resolutions, Works, vol. 2 (1899), Speech at the House of Commons, London, March 22, 1775
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People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.
-George Bush
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A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
-Robert Byrne
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I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.
-W. J. Cameron
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Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.
-Albert Camus
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Away with the cant of Measures, not men! -- the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.
-George Canning
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Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.
-Joseph Cannon
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Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
-Thomas Carlyle
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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
-Thomas Carlyle
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Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.
-Joyce Cary
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Books about Politics
