#politic

His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political. ↗

— Iain Pears

#laziness #occupation #occupied-france #politics #war

Hitler's dictatorship was the first of an industrial estate in this age of modern technology, a dictatorship which employed to perfection the instruments of technology to dominate its own people. By means of such instruments of technology, eighty million persons could be made subject to the will of one individual. Telephone, teletype, radio, made it possible to transmit the commands of the highest levels directly to the lowest organs where they were executed uncritically ↗

— Albert Speer

#age

Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox. ↗

— Anna Howard Shaw

#equality #fox #goose #i #measure

We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them. ↗

— Mark Skousen

#elect #leaders #never #our #people

Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law. ↗

— Lamar S. Smith

#judges #judicial #law #occurs #own

I hate it when politics play too large part in the sport. ↗

— Jacques Villeneuve

#i #large #part #play #politics

I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

#administration #beliefs #bureaus #congress #distress

A week is a long time in politics. ↗

— Harold Wilson

#long time #politics #time #week

Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#environment #morals #nationalism #patriotism #politics

You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order --or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#political-philosophy #age