Top 500 Politics Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

— James Baldwin

52. “Politics is more difficult than physics.”

— Albert Einstein

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

— Winston Churchill

54. “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

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

— Julius Caesar

56. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Victor Hugo

60. “The general will is always right.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

— Thomas Sowell

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

— Max Weber

63. “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

64. “The doer and the thinker, no allowances for the other, as the failing light illuminates the mercenaries creed.”

— Jethro Tull

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

— Rand Paul

66. “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

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

— Alexander Hamilton

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

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

— Frantz Fanon

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Ayn Rand

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Henry Kissinger

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

— Bertolt Brecht

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

— Winston Churchill

76. “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

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

— Robert A. Heinlein

78. “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

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

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

— Thomas Sowell

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

— Molly Ivins

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

— Mary Robinson

83. “Poverty is the mother of crime.”

— Marcus Aurelius

84. “The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.”

— Plato

85. “After I’m dead I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.”

— Cato The Elder

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

— Napoleon

87. “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

88. “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

89. “Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.”

— Pericles

90. “The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.”

— Will Rogers

91. “Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself.”

— Tony Benn

92. “Every fool has a reason for feeling sorry for himself.”

— Bruce Springsteen

93. “Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable – the art of the next best.”

— Otto von Bismarck

94. “Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings.”

— Bob Dylan

95. “Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.”

— Robert E. Howard

96. “As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

97. “Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.”

— John F. Kennedy

98. “When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.”

— Victor Hugo

99. “My life needs editing.”

— Mort Sahl

100. “Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.”

— Edward Abbey