Top 500 Politics Quotes (2026 Update)
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301. “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

302. “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

303. “To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.”

— Henry Spencer

304. “Whenever any group can vote in a bloc, and decide the outcome of elections, and it fails to do this, then that group is politically sick.”

— Malcolm X

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

— Thomas Jefferson

306. “The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

307. “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

308. “A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.”

— John Stuart Mill

309. “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

310. “The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.”

— Reinhold Niebuhr

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

— Alexis de Tocqueville

312. “As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.”

— Barbara Brown Taylor

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

— Glenn Frey

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

— John Denver

315. “He speaks to Me as if I was a public meeting.”

— Queen Victoria

316. “They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.”

— Herman Melville

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

— Edward Bellamy

318. “Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.”

— John Quincy Adams

319. “A week is a long time in politics.”

— Harold Wilson

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

— Bernie Sanders

321. “You have a part-time job and that’s better to no job at all.”

— Dan Quayle

322. “A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried!”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

323. “The people have the power to redeem the work of fools. Upon the meek the graces shower, it’s decreed the people rule.”

— Patti Smith

324. “Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don’t stand in the doorway, don’t block the hall.”

— Bob Dylan

325. “It would be bad for the economy if we have another Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy, Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy Carter grain embargo.”

— Dan Quayle

326. “Every nation needs two wings to fly. Any bird torn at the wings will never soar the skies.”

— Suzy Kassem

327. “We believe in Sarva Pantha Sambhav. We believe ’the truth is one, there are ways to reach it.”

— Narendra Modi

328. “Socialism, hypnotism, patriotism, materialism, fools making laws for the breaking of jaws.”

— Bob Dylan

329. “All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

330. “By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.”

— Albert Camus

331. “If God is on our side, he’ll stop the next war.”

— Bob Dylan

332. “In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard’s vote.”

— David Foster Wallace

333. “A people free to choose will always choose peace.”

— Ronald Reagan

334. “It’s easier to criticize somebody else, than to see yourself.”

— George Harrison

335. “At the banquet table of nature, there are no reserved seats. You get what you can take, and you keep what you can hold. If you can’t take anything, you won’t get anything, and if you can’t hold anything, you won’t keep anything. And you can’t take anything without organization.”

— A. Philip Randolph

336. “Politics is when people choose their words and actions based on how they want others to react rather than based on what they really think.”

— Patrick Lencioni

337. “All that we got here is American made. It’s a little bit cheesy, but it’s nicely displayed.”

— Frank Zappa

338. “Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

339. “If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

340. “I don’t like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles...”

— Alan Jackson

341. “Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.”

— John F. Kennedy

342. “Socialism is a dead horse.”

— Thorstein Veblen

343. “A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.”

— Dorothy Parker

344. “Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.”

— Winston Churchill

345. “If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?”

— Will Rogers

346. “As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.”

— John Dewey

347. “Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology of the mistress, and this regime used it as fuel.”

— Anna Funder

348. “One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.”

— Hannah Arendt

349. “The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.”

— Karl Marx

350. “One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.”

— Paulo Freire