194 Quotes filtered by politics
The object of oratory alone is not truth but persuasion.
Lord Macaulay
Category: Speechmaking, Truth
Politicians come and go, but medicine goes on for ever.
Lord Horder
Category: Health Issues, Politicians (as a species)
The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.
Lord Hailsham
Category: Democracy, Politics is...
A politician who enters public life may as well face the fact that the best way of not being found out is not to do anything which, if found out, will cause his ruin.
Lord Hailsham
Category: Politicians (as a species)
One of the most important of all the causes of great inequality of income is the inheritance of a great fortune by a small minority.
Hugh Dalton
I have always believed that fear has very little effect upon the conscience of our nation.
J B Cartland 22/02/1938
Category: Conscience, Fear
I was very precocious. I was pleased with myself. I thought I was very good-looking and I thought I was very clever - and I was.
Robert Boothby 06/02/1968
Category: Boasting
Teaching is a good preparation for politics because you have to reply to questions when you don't know the answer.
Keith Best 28/12/1991
Category: Education, Politics is...
The only thing you can be certain about in politics is that you can't be certain about anything.
Tony Banks 10/04/1992
Category: Politics is...
Of all human troubles the most hateful is to feel that you have the capacity of power and yet you have no field to excercise it.
H H Asquith
Category: Power
A good speech may not always be remembered but a bad speech is never forgotten - or forgiven.
Bernard Weatherill 02/05/1992
Category: Speechmaking
If you believe the doctors nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians nothing is innocent; if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe.
Lord Salisbury 15/06/1877
Category: Pessimism
Justice in politics has an uncomfortable habit of being rough.
Robert Rhodes James
Category: Politics is...
One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer luck, good or ill.
Robert Rhodes James
Category: Luck
The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget.
John Morley
Category: Politicians (as a species)
