Famous Quotes & Sayings

Algernon Charles Swinburne

The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.

Chin-Ning Chu

You feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Thomas Jefferson

That government that governs least governs best.

Thomas Jefferson

I'd rather have newspapers and no government than government and no newspapers.

Thomas Jefferson

Those who bear equally the burthens of Government should equally participate of its benefits.

Thomas Jefferson

A free government is of all others the most energetic.

Thomas Jefferson

If I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press.

Thomas Jefferson

Government governed least is government governed best.

Thomas Jefferson

The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.

Thomas Jefferson

Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.

Al Gore

Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose.

Dick Morris

The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all make the need for a 'permanent campaign' to sell a president's policies all the more crucial.

Thomas Paine

To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim

Victor Hugo

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

George Washington

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

Phil Gramm

I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.

Larry Niven

There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press.

Karl Popper

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

Karl Popper

The belief in a political Utopia is especially dangerous. This is possibly connected with the fact that the search for a better world, like the investigation of our environment, is (if I am correct) one of the oldest and most important of all the instincts.