Quotes about "Politics & Government"

If I say I am not a politician, it is because I did not go to school to do political science. But at the end of the day, I think we are all born politicians. It's practical. All you gotta do is practice. ”

It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success. ”

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another. ”

I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country. ”

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. ”

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction. ”

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain. ”

We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism. ”

Extremism in defense of liberty is not a vice, but I denounce political extremism, of the left or the right, based on duplicity, falsehood, fear, violence and threats when they endanger liberty. ”

Too often we shape our public positions on the basis of our economic connections. That brings us dangerously close to economic determinism. ”