Tag Archive for politics

He serves his party best who serves the country best.
– Rutherford B. Hayes (19th U.S. President)

Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.
– Herbert Hoover (31st U.S. President)

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.
– Franklin Pierce (14th U.S. President)

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
- Mahatma Gandhi