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POLITICS: Caesar had the right idea about political control. Give the people bread and circuses [diversion] , and they will go along with it. Almost two thousand years later, the idea still seems to hold true. (Unknown source)

POLITICS: It is inaccurate to say I hate everything related to politics. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office. (Unknown Source)

POLITICS: History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. (Unknown Source)

POLITICS: We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. (Unknown Source)

POLITICS: If politics is the art of the possible, compromise is the artistry of democracy. (Unknown Source)

POLITICS: I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made. (Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S. politician who was elected four times as the 32nd US President, 1882-1945Judgment: I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made. (Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S. politician and statesman who served as the 32nd U.S. President, 1882-1945)

POLITICS: Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesnâ€™t mean politics wonâ€™t take an interest in you. (Pericles, Greek statesman and orator, 495-429 BCE)

POLITICS: Small islands not capable of protecting themselves are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something very absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island. (Thomas Paine, U.S. philosopher and writer, 1737-1809)

POLITICS: Once a country is habituated to liars, it takes generations to bring the truth back. (Gore Vidal, U.S. writer and political pundit, 1925-2012)

POLITICS: Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance. (Vaclav Havel, Czech writer, political dissident, and politician who first served as the last president of Czechoslovakia and then as the first president of the Czech Republic after the Czech-Slovak split, 1936-2011)

POLITICS: If you pluck a chicken one feather at a time nobody notices. (Benito Mussolini, Italian politician and journalist who was the leader of the National Fascist Party, 1883-1945)

POLITICS: If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it. (Unknown source)

POLITICS: It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe. (Anne Bronte, English novelist and poet, the youngest member of the BrontÃ« literary family, 1820-1849)

POLITICS: History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. (Aba Eban, Israeli politician and diplomat, 1915-2002)

POLITICS: We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. (Aesop, ancient Greek storyteller, 620-564 BCE)

POLITICS: If politics is the art of the possible, compromise is the artistry of democracy. (Amy Gutmann, U.S. Professor of Political Science and President of the University of Pennsylvania, Born 1949)

POLITICS: All the peasant revolutions of the 20th century have been against the predatory and disruptive effects of capitalism. (Mao Zedong, Chinese communist revolutionary, political theorist and founder of the People's Republic of China, 1893-1976)

POLITICS: Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. (Ronald Reagan, U.S. politician and actor who served as the 40th President of the United States, 1911-2004)

POLITICS: Money is the mother's milk of politics. (Jesse Unruh, U.S. Democratic politician, 1922-1987)

POLITICS: If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world. (Claude Pepper, U.S. senator and representative, 1900-1989)

POLITICS: Those who have the ability to make you believe absurdities have the ability to make you commit atrocities. (Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer and philosopher, 1694-1778)

POLITICS: I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made. (Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S. politician and statesman who served as the 32nd U.S. President, 1882-1945)

POLITICS: If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake. (Mahatma Gandhi, Indian leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule who inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, 1869-1948)

POLITICS: He serves his party best who serves the country best. (Rutherford B. Hayes, U.S. politician and 19thPresident of the U.S., 1877-1881)

POLITICS: Tis the time's plague when madmen lead the blind. (William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the pre-eminent dramatist, 1564-1616)

POLITICS: Those who put out the people's eyes, reproach them for their blindness. (John Milton, English poet, 1608-1674)

POLITICS: Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. (George Jean Nathan, U.S. drama critic, author, and editor of literary magazines, 1882-1958)

POLITICS: Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. (Bernard M. Baruch, U.S. financier, stock investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant, 1870-1965)

POLITICS: Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first call promising. (Cyril Connolly, English literary critic and writer, 1903-1974)

POLITICS: Some people approach every problem with an open mouth. (Adlai Stevenson, U.S. lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 1900=1965)

POLITICS: He serves his party best who serves the country best. (Rutherford B. Hayes, U.S. politician. abolitionist, and governor of the state of Ohio who later served as the 19th president of the United States, 1822-1893)