American Politician Quotes

When we as people, a free people, go wobbly on the truth — even on what may seem the most trivial of matters — we go wobbly on America.

As each new discovery opens up, it may be, boundless oceans for investigation, for wonder, and for admiration, the great astronomers, refusing to accept mere hypotheses as true, have founded upon these discoveries a science as exact in its observation of facts as in theories.

George L. Forbes

Southerners, whose ancestors a hundred years ago knew the horrors of a homeland devastated by war, are particularly determined that war shall never come to us again. All Americans understand the basic lessons of history: that we need to be resolute and able to protect ourselves, to prevent threats and domination by others.

Stand up for what you believe in, because you can fall for anything.

Les Brown (speaker)

Political society wants things simple. Political scientists know them to be complex... One could argue that, in part, the leftist impulse is so conspicuous among the educated and well-to-do precisely because they are exposed to more information, and are accordingly forced to choose between living with the strains of complexity, or lapsing into simplism.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Voting and participating in the democratic process are key. The vote is the most powerful nonviolent change agent you have in a democratic society. You must use it because it is not guaranteed. You can lose it.

The boldness of impiety is often mistaken for knowledge, founded on an independent spirit, and thereby saps the necessary defense of a simple innocence and unsuspecting modesty.

For the Christian man to reason that God does not want him involved in politics because there are too many evil men in government is as insensitive as for a Christian doctor to turn his back on an epidemic because there are too many germs there.

The workers of America have power enough to topple the structure of capitalism at home and to lift the whole world with them when they rise.

James P. Cannon

If you want to be the person you ought to be, you've got to welcome competition.

Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind.

Bruce Fairchild Barton

It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.

Stewart L. Udall

To engage in war is always to pick a wild card. And war must always be the last resort, not a first choice. I truly must question the judgment of any president who can say that a massive, unprovoked military attack on a nation which is over fifty percent children is 'in the highest moral traditions of our country.'

After being asked to stop his long and tedious speech because no one was listening to him:

Never mind, I'm talking to Buncombe.

Buncombe, in North Carolina, was the place Felix represented. He coined the word 'bunk'

Most governments lie to each other. That's the way business gets done.

Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it is awfully hard to get it back in.

You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue law, our navigation laws, your fishing bounties, and by making your people our manufacturers, our merchants, our shippers.

John Henninger Reagan

Those not favorable to the money trust could be squeezed out of business and the people frightened into demanding changes in the banking and currency laws which the Money Trust would frame.

Charles August Lindbergh

I believe that every human being has the right to his life and to his liberty, and to act in this world so as to secure his own happiness.

If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it.

George A. Smith

Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.

Millard Fillmore

I didn't say that I didn't say it. I said that I didn't say that I said it. I want to make that very clear.

George W. Romney

As we study the Word of God rightly divided we are to understand that God has arranged His dealings with mankind into two programs. We have His prophesied purpose and His secret purpose. Prophecy has to do with the earth and Christ's reign upon it during the millennial kingdom, while the Mystery concerns our exaltation with Christ in the heavenlies.

He [Edward Livingston] is a man of splendid abilities, but utterly corrupt. He shines and stinks like rotten mackerel by moonlight.

John Randolph of Roanoke

The politicians of New York…see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy.

William L. Marcy