Politics
Political thought in France is either nostalgic or utopian.
- Aron, Raymond
The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when the human spirit is at its lowest ebb.
- Baker, Russell
Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.
- Brandeis, Louis D.
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
(The President) is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
- Garfield, James A.
Politics have no relation to morals.
- Machiavelli, Niccolo
To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglars in politics as well as mortals.
- Penn, William
Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
- Penrose, Boise

