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Politics is
perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is
thought necessary.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist,
Poet, Novelist
The two maxims
of any great man at court are, always to keep his
countenance and never to keep his work.
-- Jonathan Swift
1667-1745, Anglo-Irish
Satirist
In the school
of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the
professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their
senses; which is a scene that never fails to make me
melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for
persuading monarchs to choose favorites upon the score of
their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to
consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great
abilities, and eminent services, of instructing princes to
know their true interest, by placing it on the same
foundation with that of their people; of choosing for
employment persons qualified to exercise them; with many
other wild impossible chimeras, that never entered before
into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the
old observation, that there is nothing so extravagant and
irrational which some philosophers have not maintained for
truth.
-- Jonathan Swift
1667-1745, Anglo-Irish
Satirist
Politics, when
I am in it, it makes me sick.
-- William Howard Taft
1857-1930, US statesman and
27th president
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I am in
politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and
I believe that in the end good will triumph.
-- Margaret Thatcher
1925-, British Stateswoman,
Prime Minister (1979-90)
Politics is
the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.
-- Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist,
Poet, Naturalist
In politics...
shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
-- Alexis De Tocqueville
1805-1859, French Social
Philosopher
Ninety-eight
percent of the adults in this country are decent,
hard-working Americans. It is the other lousy two percent
that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.
-- Lily Tomlin
1939-, American Comedienne
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