If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.
- Adolf Hitler

We, the people, are the rightful masters of both congress and the courts – not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the constitution.
- Abe Lincoln

We know that this mad dog of the Middle East has a goal of a world revolution.
- Ronald Reagan

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
- John F. Kennedy

Those few days after Kent State were among the darkest of my presidency.
- Richard Nixon

Success is the sole earthly judge of right or wrong.
- Adolf Hitler

I detest war; it ruins conversation
- Bernard Fontenelle

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
- George Bernard Shaw

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
- Mahtma Gandhi

Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
- Robert Orben

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
- George Orwell

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
- George Orwell

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.
- George Orwell

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
- George Orwell

To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.
- George Orwell

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
- Napoleon

The believer is happy, the doubter wise.
- Greek Proverb

Those who fail to fail to learn history, are doomed to repeat it.
- Wilston Churchill

Education, Education, Education(well known mantra)
- Tony Blair

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
- Lord Kelvin

Honey, I forgot to duck
- President Reagan to his wife, Nancy after being shot

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
- George Orwell

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House—with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
- John F Kennedy

If a book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But for God’s sake, let us freely hear both sides if we choose.
- Thomas Jefferson to N. G. Dufief 

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.
- Thomas Jefferson

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
- George Orwell

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Mahatama Gandhi

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
- Alexander Hamilton

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston Churchill

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
- Abraham Lincoln

You are remembered for the rules you break.
- Douglas MacArthur

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
- Napoleon

Reading is the basics for all learning.
- George W. Bush

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.
- Nelson Mandela

I have opinions of my own – strong opinions – but I don’t always agree with them.
- George Bush

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.
- President Gerald Ford

I’m not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.
- Hillary Clinton

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
- G.B. Shaw

Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that.
- Bill Clinton

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Sir Winston Churchill

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
- Abraham Lincoln

We’re concerned about AIDS inside our White House-make no mistake about it.
- George W. Bush

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m beginning to believe it. 
-Clarence Darrow

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces. 
-Maureen Murphy

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party. 
-Winston Churchill

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
- Arthur C. Clarke

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
- Charles de Gaulle

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
- George Jean Nathan

A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman thinks of the next generation.
- James Freeman Clarke,

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
- Isaac Newton

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
- Mao Tse Tung

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
- Aesop

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
- Mao Tse Tung

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where they is no river.
- Nikita

The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.
- Maureen Murphy

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

There are far too many men in politics and not enough elsewhere.
- Hermione Gingold

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
- Confucius

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.
- John F. Kennedy

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.
- Clare Boothe Luce

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
- Woodrow Wilson

During a campaign the air is full of speeches – and vice versa.
- Anonymous

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
- George Will

Democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
- Winston Churchill

A politician will stand for what he thinks people will fall for.
- Anonymous

No government can be long secure without formidable opposition.
- Benjamin Disraeli

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