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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about politics, end, failure, fear

It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.

Quote by Lester Bangs about air, politics, things

Those moments right before we invaded, I wish that I could have done something. But professionally, I don't go in that direction of choosing things based on personal politics.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about politics, wish, rightness, things

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Quote by Lord Acton about end, liberty

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about politics

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

Quote by John Adams about politics, word, woman, contentment

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

Quote by John Adams about mathematics, philosophy, politics, liberty, war

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Quote by John Adams about politics

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about politics, thinking, nothing

Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.

Quote by Warren Beatty about politics, people

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about stupidity, politics

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about mistake, politics

If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

Quote by George W. Bush about cynicism, politics, contentment

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about indifference, politics

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

Quote by Jane Austen about silence, politics

As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.

Quote by Agatha Christie about film, politics, regret

Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.

Quote by Hans Eysenck about diplomacy, tact, politics, science, affair, things

Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn't - now - and this is the honest truth.

Quote by Mel Gibson about politics, religion, contentment, truth, time

The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.

Quote by Gerald R. Ford about teaching

In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about politics, opinion, wish, country, war, power