Quotes about politics
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Bertrand Russell1872–1970The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism (1920), Part I, The Present Condition of Russia, Ch. 1: What Is Hoped From Bolshevism- Bertrand Russell1872–1970Sceptical Essays (1928), Ch. 13: Freedom in Society
Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.
Grover Cleveland1837–1908Interview in New York Commercial Advertiser (19 September 1889).
Arthur Miller1915–2005Interview in Marxism Today (January 1988)
Will Rogers1879–1935The Illiterate Digest (1924)
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington1769–1852When asked what he thought of the first Reformed Parliament (1832), as quoted in Words on Wellington (1889) by Sir William Fraser, p. 12
Alexander Pope1688–1744Thoughts on Various Subjects, in Miscellanies (1727)
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.1841–1935Vegelahn v. Guntner, 167 Mass. 92, 44 N.E. 1077, 1080 (1896) (Supreme Court of Massachusetts, Holmes dissenting).
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)- Will Rogers1879–1935As quoted in P. J. O’Brien, Will Rogers, Ambassador of Good Will, Prince of Wit and Wisdom (1935), Ch. 9
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)It’s class warfare. My class is winning, but they shouldn’t be.
Warren Buffettborn 1930Interview with Lou Dobbs on CNN (25 May 2005)Mystery is an emotion which is repugnant to a political animal.
Norman Mailer1923–2007Superman Comes to the Supermarket (1960)Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
Herbert Hoover1874–1964Address to the Nebraska Republican Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska (16 January 1936)
