Politics is but the common pulsebeat of which revolution is the feverspasm.

Wendell Phillips
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. - Douglas Adams

  2. Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth. - Paul Krugman

  3. Immer wieder behauptete Unwahrheiten werden nicht zu Wahrheiten, sondern, was schlimmer ist, zu Gewohnheiten. - Oliver Hassencamp

  4. What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree. - John Brunner

  5. A people religiously right, will not long remain politically wrong. - William Arnot

More Quotes By Wendell Phillips
  1. What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind.

  2. How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

  3. When I want to find the vanguard of the people I look to the uneasy dreams of an aristocracy and find what they dread most.

  4. You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70 or given up all hope of the Presidency.

  5. Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage.

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