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Monday, November 13, 2023

Politics Quotes

Quotes About Politics 

  • "If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions." –James Madison, letter to Edmund Pendleton, 1792
  • Everything is changing.  People are taking comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke. Will Rogers
  • Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. Chester Bowles
  • To succeed in politics often requires rising above your principles. 
  • What's real in politics is what the voters decide is real. Ben J. Wattenberg
  • You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions. Senator Patrick Leahy
  • Politics makes estranged bedfellows. --Goodman Ace, American Writer (1899-1982)
  • Politics are a very unsatisfactory game. --Henry B. Adams, Historian (1838-1918)
  • Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. --Henry B. Adams, Historian (1838-1918)
  • Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds. --Henry Brooks Adams, -
  • Partisan politics has no place in the classroom. --Juan Cole
  • Does politics have to be injected into everything? --Sargent Shriver
  • A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be. --Rosalynn Carter
  • Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected. --Thomas Sowell
  • However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion. --George Washington
  • Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future. --John F. Kennedy







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Political
POLIT'ICAL, a. [supra.] Pertaining to policy, or to civil government and its administration. Political measures or affairs are measures that respect the government of a nation or state. So we say, political power or authority; political wisdom; a political scheme; political opinions. A good prince is the political father of his people. The founders of a state and wise senators are also called political fathers.
1. Pertaining to a nation or state, or to nations or states, as distinguished from civil or municipal; as in the phrase, political and civil rights, the former comprehending rights that belong to a nation, or perhaps to a citizen as an individual of a nation; and the latter comprehending the local rights of a corporation or any member of it.
Speaking of the political state of Europe, we are accustomed to say of Sweden, she lost her liberty by the revolution.
2. Public; derived from office or connection with government; as political character.
3. Artful; skillful. [See Politic.]
4. Treating of politics or government; as a political writer.
Political arithmetic, the art of reasoning by figures, or of making arithmetical calculations on matters relating to a nation, its revenues, value of lands and effects, produce of lands or manufactures, population, &c.
Political economy, the administration of the revenues of a nation; or the management and regulation of its resources and productive property and labor. Political economy comprehends all the measures by which the property and labor of citizens are directed in the best manner to the success of individual industry and enterprise, and to the public prosperity. Political economy is now considered as a science.


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2 Chronicles 1:2 Solomon called together all the leaders of Israel - the generals and captains of the army, the judges, and all the political and clan leaders.
Proverbs 28:2 (MSG) When the country is in chaos, everybody has a plan to fix it— But it takes a leader of real understanding to straighten things out.
Psalms 46:7 (MSG) Jacob-wrestling God fights for us, God -of-Angel-Armies protects us.
Psalms 46:11 (MSG) Jacob-wrestling God fights for us, God -of-Angel-Armies protects us.
Romans 13:1-7
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