Top 500 Politics Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.”

— Ayn Rand

52. “Presidents are selected, not elected.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

53. “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.”

— Aleister Crowley

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54. “I’d rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don’t want, and get it.”

— Eugene V. Debs

55. “Experts are just trained dogs.”

— Albert Einstein

56. “In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

57. “A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.”

— Barack Obama

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58. “Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.”

— Thucydides

59. “You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.”

— Winston Churchill

60. “Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.”

— Thomas Jefferson

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61. “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

— James Baldwin

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62. “Don’t confuse having a career with having a life.”

— Hillary Clinton

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63. “If socialists understood economics, they wouldn’t be socialist.”

— Friedrich August von Hayek

64. “War gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished.”

— Julius Caesar

65. “I hate money and Jews.”

— Karl Marx

66. “The NHS will last as long as there are folk left with faith to fight for it.”

— Aneurin Bevan

67. “Politics is more difficult than physics.”

— Albert Einstein

68. “The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”

— Thomas Sowell

69. “I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.”

— Christopher Hitchens

70. “The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there’s no limit to the power it can generate.”

— Winston Churchill

71. “After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.”

— Winston Churchill

72. “The general will is always right.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

73. “When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed.”

— Ayn Rand

74. “I’ll be like Scarlett O’Hara-I’ll think about it tomorrow.”

— Ronald Reagan

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75. “If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!”

— Victor Hugo

76. “The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.”

— Benjamin Franklin

77. “A government is an institution that holds a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence.”

— Max Weber

78. “Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

79. “It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.”

— Thomas Sowell

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80. “The doer and the thinker, no allowances for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenary’s creed.”

— Jethro Tull

81. “Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

82. “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?”

— Ronald Reagan

83. “I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.”

— Mary Robinson

84. “Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!”

— Bertolt Brecht

85. “In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.”

— Mark Twain

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86. “The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen’s behavior, it was writtne to restrain the government’s behavior.”

— Rand Paul

87. “It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”

— Thomas Sowell

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88. “A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.”

— Alexander Hamilton

89. “I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

90. “To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.”

— Frantz Fanon

91. “Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.”

— Henry Kissinger

92. “Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.”

— Winston Churchill

93. “The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.”

— Thomas Sowell

94. “There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

95. “A world is supported by four things: the learning of wise, the justice of great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.”

— Frank Herbert

96. “Poverty is the mother of crime.”

— Marcus Aurelius

97. “The first rule of holes: When you’re in one stop digging.”

— Molly Ivins

98. “The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.”

— Thomas Sowell

99. “The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.”

— Thomas Sowell

100. “In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.”

— Napoleon