Politician Quotes

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

A promise must never be broken.

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

If ask 100 Arkansans about the phrase, 'the public option,' or 'a public option,' you'll get 100 different impressions about what that means.

The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.

Anger is seldom without argument but seldom with a good one.

My parents started a business out of the living room of our home and, 30-plus years later, it was a multimillion dollar company. So, President Obama, with all due respect, don't tell me that my parents didn't build their business.

My job is to create jobs. In the end I'm going to have jobs to show for it.

In 2009, South Carolina was blessed to welcome a great American company that chose to stay in our country to continue to do business. That company was Boeing.

I've never been a planner. I didn't know I was going to run for the State House. I didn't know I was going to run for governor. I don't know what's next, and I love not thinking about it because the doors open at a certain time.

I'm very proud of the way that I was raised, I'm very proud of the way that my parents raised me.

I'm not going to stop beating up on the unions.