#political

When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#both #business #civil #civil service #control

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. ↗

— Will Rogers

#am #any #democrat #i #i am

I have not the smarts or patience for political office. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#office #patience #political #political office #smarts

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain. ↗

— George C. Wallace

#after #climbed #consideration #feel #i

We've got a deeply flawed political system with an insane overreaching extremist element, with a Supreme Court that is completely loony. ↗

— Lizz Winstead

#court #deeply #element #extremist #flawed

I don't care what political party is controlling China right now. All I know is we are all Chinese. ↗

— Alex Chiu

#china #chinese #controlling #i #know

The most important political office is that of the private citizen. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#citizen #important #most #office #political

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#american #constitution #ever #greatest #human

All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#add #aid #aims #artificial #consequences

Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#economic #end #ends #infinitum #man