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A disposition
to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together,
would be my standard of a statesman.
-- Edmund Burke
1729-1797, British Political
Writer, Statesman
Circumstances
give in reality to every political principle its
distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The
circumstances are what render every civil and political
scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
-- Edmund Burke
1729-1797, British Political
Writer, Statesman
Magnanimity in
politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire
and little minds go ill together.
-- Edmund Burke
1729-1797, British Political
Writer, Statesman
Your
representative owes you, not his industry only, but his
judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he
sacrifices it to your opinion.
-- Edmund Burke
1729-1797, British Political
Writer, Statesman
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People say I'm
indecisive, but I don't know about that.
-- George Bush
1924-, Forty-first President
of the USA
A promising
young man should go into politics so that he can go on
promising for the rest of his life.
-- Robert Byrne
I have
simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all
existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most
agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment
of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate
for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches
are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and
one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a
people than another.
-- Lord Byron
1788-1824, British Poet
An honest
politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought.
-- W. J. Cameron
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