Powerful Political Quotes

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. – Edmund Burke

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. – Napoleon Bonaparte

The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men. – Plato

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. – Abraham Lincoln

Politics is the art of the possible. – Otto von Bismarck

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. – Winston Churchill

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others. – Winston Churchill

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. – Charles de Gaulle

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. – Adlai Stevenson

If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu. – Elizabeth Warren

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. – Nelson Mandela

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power. – John Steinbeck

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. – George Santayana

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. – Abraham Lincoln

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. – Barack Obama

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other. – Oscar Ameringer

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. – Plato

It is hard to be subversive when you are worried about what the government is going to do to you. – Joe Rogan

You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. – Malcolm X

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. – Karl Marx

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. – Benjamin Franklin

Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters. – Abraham Lincoln

I always voted at my party’s call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all. – Gilbert and Sullivan

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. – Plato

A politician thinks of the next election, a statesman, of the next generation. – James Freeman Clarke

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. – Woodrow Wilson

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship, you don’t have to waste your time voting. – Charles Bukowski

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. – George Washington

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. – Thomas Jefferson

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. – Mark Twain

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice. – Montesquieu

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption. – Kurt Cobain

The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen. – Tom Smothers

If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal. – Emma Goldman

The government’s first duty is to protect the people. – Ronald Reagan

We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate. – Thomas Jefferson

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. – H. L. Mencken

The most powerful weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. – Steve Biko

The goal of socialism is communism. – Vladimir Lenin

The function of freedom is to free someone else. – Toni Morrison

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever. – George Orwell

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. – George Orwell

The only way to deal with all this power is to go somewhere, hermetically sealed, where you can create your own world. – Patti Smith

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it. – Albert Einstein