Politics in Vision Quotes

"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

"He who has a vehement desire for posthumous fame does not consider that every one of those who remember him will himself also die very soon."

"It always seems impossible until it's done."

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex."

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

"In our age, there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues."

"The state is the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies, too; and this lie creeps from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people.'"

"Democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

"There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families."

"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison."

"Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."

"Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem."

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for."

"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution."

"You can't have capitalism without racism."

"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."

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

"Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion."

"Man is by nature a political animal."