"A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen."

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"A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen."

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"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

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"I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

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"Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Politics, Democracy, Freedom, Commitment, Liberty

"I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, American President

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"Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions."

Jonathan Swift, Irish Writer

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"The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission."

John F. Kennedy, American President

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"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

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"If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances."

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"Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization."

Freedom

"There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained."

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"Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times."

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"There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result."

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"If one has to submit it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible."

Life

"To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour."

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"Patriotism is the narcissism of countries."

"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."

"A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards."

"I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day."

"Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again."

"Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters."

"I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making."

"Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions."

"The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission."

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."

Explore more quotes by Winston Churchill

"Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization."

"There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained."

"Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times."

"There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result."

"If one has to submit it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible."

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

"We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English."

"There is no such thing as a good tax."