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- Nov 07, 2020
Political Quotes
Political life, criticized and examined from several sides.
This set includes one quote critical of a named judge's judicial philosophy, alongside more general observations about school boards serving as a training ground for political leadership. For satirical takes on politics, see Jokes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Political and social events must also be effective, but not in a very obvious fashion. But political confusion and prolonged peace undoubtedly affect creative thought but whether they respectively hinder or help it is not at all certain.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Barack Obama's convention speech in 2004 had made him a political star, and he arrived in Iowa to crowds unseen in caucus history.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Washington is paralyzed by extreme political rhetoric that creates powerful sound bites but poor policy.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
The issue of the environment as seen by Pope Francis is not a matter of purely scientific or, indeed, theological debate: it involves economic and political views on how the world's poor can be brought out of poverty while protecting the environment.
- Platform
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- Nov 07, 2020
Justices are not politicians. They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Singling out political opponents for working against the ruling party is precisely the tactic of every tyrannical government from Red China to Venezuela. The first step in the process is creating unfounded public suspicion of political opponents, followed by arresting and jailing any who continue speaking against the regime.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a universal and fundamental political principle that the power to protect can safely be confided only to those interested in protecting, or their responsible agents - a maxim not less true in private than in public affairs.
- Disaster
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- Nov 07, 2020
The day that the balance between the two sections of the country - the slaveholding States and the non-slaveholding States - is destroyed is a day that will not be far removed from political revolution, anarchy, civil war, and widespread disaster.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If not met promptly and decidedly, the two portions of the Union will gradually become thoroughly alienated, when no alternative will be left to us, as the weaker of the two, but to sever all political ties or sink down into abject submission.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes in the political, economic, and social structure.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
There certainly is a lot of political pressure for states to adopt the new federal tax codes. But there is no law that requires them to do so.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020