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Politics

Politics is the practice, art, or science of influencing government policy, gaining power, and deciding how resources are distributed in a society.

Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.

Albert Einstein

Any government is evil if it carries within it the tendency to deteriorate into Tyranny. The danger of such deterioration is more acute in a country in which the government has authority not only over the armed forces but also over every channel of education and information.

Albert Einstein

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

Albert Einstein

Any government is evil if it carries within it the tendency to deteriorate into Tyranny. The danger of such deterioration is more acute in a country in which the government has authority not only over the armed forces but also over every channel of education and information.

Albert Einstein

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Man is by nature a political animal.

Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.

Albert Einstein

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

John F. Kennedy

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

Henry David Thoreau

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Winston Churchill

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Abraham Lincoln

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

Harry S. Truman

Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

Theodore Roosevelt

You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.

Abraham Lincoln

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

George Washington

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.