Learn about Politics Through these Quotes

“Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely.”


– Aristotle



“The people who cast the votes don’t decide an election, the people who count the votes do.”


– Joseph Stalin



“Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.”


– George Jean Nathan



“If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it’s fixed.”


– David H. Hackworth



“We are endeavoring, too, to reduce the government to the practice of a rigorous economy, to avoid burdening the people, and arming the magistrate with patronage of money, which might be used to corrupt and undermine the principles of our government.”


– Thomas Jefferson



“Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rich as what they are — a simple upward redistribution of income, rather than a way to make all of us richer, as we were told.”


– Ha-Joon Chang



“I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”


– Winston S. Churchill



“Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.”


– Mao Tse-Tung