Political Sayings

The Emperor should not be involved in politics.

A government that ignores its people's needs is a government that will fall.

I am a convinced communist. This is my main credo.

I am tired of being president.

Sometimes you have to be politically incorrect.

I am a democrat, and I believe in the power of arguments.

I am a simple electrician, but I know that in politics you have to be tough.

Politics, when it is done well, is a service to others, not a means to personal power or enrichment.

I am a Republican, and I shall die a Republican.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable — the art of the next best.

It is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.

The civil constitution in every state shall be republican.

The democratic movement is the inheritance of the Christian movement.

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

The government of a country by a mere numerical majority, is a thing which cannot be permanent.

All oppression creates a state of war.

The regime of truth is not a universal truth, but a historical truth.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

Totalitarianism is an ideology, not a government.

I have never heard of anything so insolent as to propose to the English Parliament to give up their liberty by their own consent.