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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
T. S. Eliot on politics

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
William Blake on politics

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
Dwight D. Eisenhower on politics

Half a truth is better than no politics.
Gilbert K. Chesterton on politics

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
Ambrose Bierce on politics

Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
Dwight D. Eisenhower on politics

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.
Maria Montessori on politics

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.
Marshall McLuhan on politics

Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.
Mason Cooley on politics

Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
George McGovern on politics

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
Benjamin Disraeli on politics

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
Edmund Burke on politics

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Edmund Burke on politics

There are no morals in politics there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
Vladimir Lenin on politics

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.
Ross Perot on politics

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
Orson Welles on politics

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
James Russell Lowell on politics

Finality is not the language of politics.
Benjamin Disraeli on politics

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
Benjamin Disraeli on politics

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
Jean-Paul Sartre on politics