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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Observations on a Late Publication on the Present State of the Nation (1769)
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), Volume iii, p. 334
- Power
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
- Religion
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)
- Wisdom
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 Burke1729–1797Speech to the Electors of Bristol (3 November 1774); reported in The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke (1899), vol. 2, p. 95
- Democracy
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)
And the Congress will push me to raise taxes and I’ll say no. And they’ll push, and I’ll say no, and they’ll push again, and I’ll say, to them, “Read my lips: no new taxes.”
George H. W. Bush1924–2018Speech accepting the Republican nomination, New Orleans (18 August 1988)
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
Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job.
George W. Bushborn 1946Speaking to FEMA head Michael D. Brown, following Hurrican Katrina at Mobile Regional Airport in Mobile, Alabama. — September 2, 2005.
I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy.
George W. Bushborn 1946On Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin, in a press conference with Putin (16 June 2001)
Our country is more important than the politics of the moment. Let the officials elected by the people fulfill their duties and represent our voices in peace and safety.
George W. Bushborn 1946Comments on the storming of US Capitol (2021)
- Democracy
There is such a thing as society. It’s just not the same thing as the state.
David Cameronborn 1966Speech after winning the Conservative Party leadership contest (6 December 2005).
- Government
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.
Albert Camus1913–1960“Homage to an Exile”, speech honoring Eduardo Santos (7 December 1955); in Resistance, Rebellion, and Death (1960)
- Power
It’s a big club and you ain’t in it.
George Carlin1937–2008Life Is Worth Losing (2005), “Dumb Americans”
- Power
Being confident of our own future, we are now free of that inordinate fear of communism which once led us to embrace any dictator who joined us in that fear.
Jimmy Carter1924–2024Commencement Speech Given at Notre Dame University (22 May 1977)
- Fear