It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.
- Joseph Goebbels
It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.
- Joseph Stalin
Without patriotic political education, a soldier is only a potential criminal.
- Thomas Sankara
The secret of political bargaining is to look more strong than what you really are.
- Subhas Chandra Bose
Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death.
- Adolf Hitler
If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.
- Plato
There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.
- Robert E. Lee
The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?
- Angela Davis
Now is the time to alter our government. Now is the time to stop the movement toward oligarchy. Now is the time to create a government which represents all Americans and not just the 1%... No more excuses. We must all become involved in the political process.
- Bernie Sanders
Never wound a snake; kill it.
- Harriet Tubman
Truth between candid minds can never do harm.
- Thomas Jefferson
Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
- Alexander Hamilton
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
- Benjamin Franklin
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.
- Winston Churchill
If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.
- Mark Twain
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Fascism is capitalism in decay.
- Vladimir Lenin
There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.
- Stokely Carmichael
Yes, a dictator can be loved. Provided that the masses fear him at the same time. The crowd love strong men. The crowd is like a woman.
- Benito Mussolini
It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to enslave a people that wants to remain free.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
He who dares not offend cannot be honest.
- Thomas Paine
History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster.
- Douglas MacArthur
A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect
- Vann R. Newkirk II
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
- Barack Obama
The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
- Otto von Bismarck
Politics have no relation to morals.
No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.
- John F. Kennedy
How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics in the twentieth century.
- Aneurin Bevan
When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.
- Richard M. Nixon
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.
- Edward R. Murrow
Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.
- Tommy Douglas
The only way change happens is when people become more significantly involved in the political process.
All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.
- Mao Zedong
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
- Karl Marx
History is not everything, but it is a starting point. History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day. It is a compass they use to find themselves on the map of human geography. It tells them where they are but, more importantly, what they must be.
- John Henrik Clarke
What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.
Term limits would cure both senility and seniority- both terrible legislative diseases.
- Harry S. Truman
Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.
- Farley Mowat
Learn to think continentally.
The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.
- Aristotle
Political correctness is neither political nor is it correct. It amounts to social censorship, and the sooner we spit it out, the better.
- Jeff Cooper
Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.
- James Madison
Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
- Samuel Adams
A military without political training is a potential criminal.
African slavery, as it exists in the United States, is a moral, a social, and a political blessing.
- Jefferson Davis
The most tyrannical of governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his thoughts.
- Baruch Spinoza
Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.
- Josef Mengele
