Politics Quotes

"My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen." ~ Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together." ~ Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift "The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement--but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims." ~ Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad "It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something." ~ Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope From politics, it was an easy step to silence. ~ Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen "You see my kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous." ~ A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain