#pol

Finality is not the language of politics. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#language #politics

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man’s cruelty and baseness. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#courtesy #manners #politeness #art

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#economic #economic independence #education #even #independence

I’ve often wondered why the Protestant Reformation took place in Germany, rather than in Poland. Then I realize that Luther had to nail his 95 theses to the church door, and the Poles didn’t know how to operate a hammer. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#church #germany #hammer #lutheran #martin-luther

Secondly, I thought it was ridiculous to have two undercover policemen driving around in a striped tomato. ↗

— Paul M. Glaser

#driving #i #policemen #ridiculous #secondly

The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#big #biography #career #getting #had

And on election night I'd go down to city hall in El Paso, Texas and cover the election. In those days, of course, we didn't have exit polls. You didn't know who had won the election until they actually counted the votes. I thought that was exciting too. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#city #city hall #counted #course #cover

Our country is blessed with a democratic political system that is sensitive to the wishes of our people. ↗

— Denzil Douglas

#country #democratic #our #our people #people

I don't ever apologize for who I am because then I let someone else decide who I am. ↗

— Kyan Douglas

#apologize #because #decide #else #ever

I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#ark #colored #his #hopes #i