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In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.
Margaret Thatcher1925–2013Speech to members of the National Union of Townswomen’s Guilds, delivered at the Royal Albert Hall (May 20, 1965); as quoted in Why Women Should Rule the World, HarperCollins (2008), Dee Dee Myers, p. 227
- Women
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations⁠—entangling alliances with none.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address (1801)
- Government
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).
Ayn Rand1905–1982The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)
Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790
Politics are almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
Winston Churchill1874–1965From a conversational exchange with Harold Begbie, as cited in Master Workers, Begbie, Methuen & Co. (1906), p. 177.
- War & Peace
Diplomacy…the art of restraining power.
Henry Kissinger1923–2023
My political ambitions have nothing to do with vanity or the desire for power. I want to help people. I owe them something after all they’ve done for me.
Arnold Schwarzeneggerborn 1947
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.
Ernest Benn1875–1954Often credited to Groucho Marx
Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is⁠—the strong horse that pulls the whole cart.
Winston Churchill1874–1965The Unwritten Alliance: Speeches 1953-1959, London: Cassell (1961), p. 324, Woodford, Essex, (1959, 29 September)
The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Plato429–349 BCAttributed to Plato on the letterhead of the Constitution Party. Reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations compiled by The Library of Congress. Mineola, N.Y., Dover Publications, 2010.
- Good & Evil
If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.
Dwight D. Eisenhower1890–1969
- War & Peace
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
Alexander Hamilton1757–1804Letter to Robert Morris (30 April 1781)
- Economics
One thing I have learned about the presidency is that whatever shortcomings you have, people are going to notice them⁠—and whatever strengths you have, you’re going to need them.
George W. Bushborn 1946Republican National Convention
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
George Burns1896–1996Life magazine (December 1979)
The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion, because if a mother can kill her own child what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Mother Teresa1910–1997Her Nobel Lecture given upon receiving the Peace Prize (December 11, 1979).
- Abortion