Top 500 Politics Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “Have pity on a dinosaur.”

— Hank Williams, Jr.

252. “No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.”

— John Adams

253. “Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

254. “Taxation has its limitations as a method of achieving better economic distribution since for this purpose it is essentially remedial. We must also take a positive approach by finding new ways to spread ownership of future capital growth more broadly in our society.”

— John D. Rockefeller

255. “The land of milk and honey, they say it is the land of money.”

— Bob Dylan

256. “Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.”

— Helen Keller

257. “The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

258. “Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.”

— Paul Wellstone

259. “I think there needs to be a meeting to set an agenda for more meetings about meetings.”

— Jonah Goldberg

260. “And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.”

— Geoffrey Chaucer

261. “Peace, bread, work, and freedom is the best we can achieve.”

— Billy Bragg

262. “No one is exempt from the call to find common ground.”

— Barack Obama

263. “We must consult our means rather than our wishes.”

— George Washington

264. “Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.”

— Saint Augustine

265. “No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.”

— William Cowper

266. “There is a higher law than the law of government. That’s the law of conscience.”

— Stokely Carmichael

267. “Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency.”

— Bob Dylan

268. “If you begin by saying, ‘Thou shalt not lie,’ there is no longer any possibility of political action.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

269. “An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any force.”

— Ron Paul

270. “If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.”

— Walter F. Mondale

271. “Don’t be afraid to see what you see.”

— Ronald Reagan

272. “The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.”

— Richelle Mead

273. “Nihilism is best done by professionals.”

— Iggy Pop

274. “Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.”

— Carl Schmitt

275. “The drunken politician leaps upon the street where mothers weep, and the saviors who are fast asleep, they wait for you.”

— Bob Dylan

276. “And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you’re inside.”

— Stephen King

277. “The dead should not rule the living.”

— Thomas Jefferson

278. “Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.”

— Jimmy Carter

279. “He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.”

— Napoleon

280. “Always attack, Never defend.”

— Paul Begala

281. “Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.”

— Saint Augustine

282. “Change we need.”

— Barack Obama

283. “Truth between candid minds can never do harm.”

— Thomas Jefferson

284. “Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

285. “A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.”

— Aristotle

286. “In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

287. “The world wills itself to be deceived, so let it be deceived.”

— Petronius Arbiter

288. “Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

289. “Vice president: A spare tire on the automobile of government.”

— John Nance Garner

290. “We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.”

— Ronald Reagan

291. “As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.”

— Leon Trotsky

292. “If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.”

— Edward Bellamy

293. “Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.”

— Noam Chomsky

294. “A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.”

— Nelson Mandela

295. “There must be no compromise with slavery – none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.”

— William Lloyd Garrison

296. “There’s another kind of poverty that only rich men know, a moral malnutrition that starves their very souls.”

— Glenn Frey

297. “I know he’d be a poorer man if he never saw an eagle fly.”

— John Denver

298. “When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in the early spring.”

— Farkas Bolyai

299. “You can’t become a billionaire stepping over children sleeping on the street.”

— Bernie Sanders

300. “I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.”

— Joseph de Maistre