Quotes about "Politics & Government"

Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one. ”

Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership. ”

2004 was a great year for Boston! The Patriots won the Super Bowl! Boston hosted its first national political convention! And - the Red Sox won the World Series! ”

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. ”

The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross. ”

In the event of fire in any of the public buildings troops would be of vast service in the protection of public property, and should insurrection break out the protection of life and property would be more safe guarded by our company of regulars, than by the whole City. ”

It is notoriously true that the public mind is seriously agitated with apprehensions of negroes insurrections and that it is becoming more and more so. ”

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. ”

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear. ”

There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty. ”