Quotes about Politics

I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.

It is still possible to have friendly discourse in America, as long as you don't bring up any subject.

I do not know the difference between them, for the politics of the Yankees is a puzzle I cannot solve, study it as I may. But as far as seeing through a grindstone goes, I am afraid— Susan shook her head dubiously, that they are all tarred with the same brush.

Charlie Sloane says he's going to go into politics and be a member of Parliament, but Mrs. Lynde says he'll never succeed at that, because the Sloanes are all honest people, and it's only rascals that get on in politics nowadays.

Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.

In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.

Demagoguery is the ability to dress minor ideas with major words.

Once said that his political adversary "dived down deeper into the sea of knowledge and came up drier than any other man he knew.

being used now, in order to force slavery on to Kansas; for it cannot be done in any other way. [Sensation.] The

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

There are only two kinds of politics. They're not radical and reactionary or conservative and liberal or even Democratic and Republican. There are only the politics of fear and the politics of trust. One says you are encircled by monstrous dangers. Give us power over your freedom so we may protect you. The other says the world is a baffling and hazardous place, but it can be shaped to the will of men.

The Politics of Fear Fear is the most powerful enemy of reason. Both fear and reason are essential to human survival, but the relationship between them is unbalanced. Reason may sometimes dissipate fear, but fear frequently shuts down reason. As Edmund Burke wrote in England twenty years before the American Revolution, "No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.