Political Quotes and Quotations
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The last thing I ever wanted was to be alive when the three most powerful people on the whole planet would be named Bush, Dick and Colon.
Kurt Vonnegut
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One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato
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The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
Plato
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He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
George Bernard Shaw
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Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.
Theodore Roosevelt
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The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first and love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
Theodore Roosevelt
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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.
Karl Marx
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The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too.
Malcolm X
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
Malcolm X
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You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
Malcolm X
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Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy
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The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.
John F. Kennedy
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Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
Ronald Reagan
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Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Ronald Reagan
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Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Ronald Reagan
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How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Ronald Reagan
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Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.
Ronald Reagan
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As government expands, liberty contracts.
Ronald Reagan
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I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
Ronald Reagan
