#politic

I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never a gain elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty. ↗

— Davy Crockett

#country #disgrace #done #duty #elected

The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#constitute #constructive #did #direction #federalism

The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#constitution #hardly #importance #inferior #jefferson

The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#behind #capable #citizens #favor #federalism

First, take the government of the Indians out of politics; second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites; third, give the Indian the ballot. ↗

— George Crook

#first #give #government #indian #indians

Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time. In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, six years off your life. ↗

— George Stephanopoulos

#campaigns #dog #every #four #house

The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are meted out immediately. ↗

— Ely Culbertson

#cards #immediately #out #politics #power

You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job. ↗

— James Lovelock

#i #job #know #negative #negative way

...Bin Laden's quotes from the Quaran resonated in my brain: "When you meet the unbelievers, strike them in the neck." "If you do not go out and fight, God will punish you severely and put others in your place." "Wherever you find the polytheists, kill them, seize them, besiege them, ambush them." "You who believe, do not take the Jews and Christians as friends; they are allies only to each other. Anyone who takes them as an ally becomes one of them. ↗

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#politics #religion #religion

Liberal bigots are the ones who trouble me most. I distrust the extremes. Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat. It's true! Liberal governments always develop into aristocracies. The bureaucracies betray the true intent of people who form such governments. Right from the first the little people who formed the governments which promised to equalize the social burdens found themselves suddenly in the hands of bureaucratic aristocracies. Of course, all bureaucracies follow this pattern, but what a hypocrisy to find this even under a communized banner. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#religion #equality