Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
Politics Quotes
The list of top contributors is odd: Benito Mussolini has the most entries, then Disraeli, with a Nigerian governor, Bernard Crick and Jean Chrétien behind them. It reflects what Wikiquote editors chose to collect, not a ranking of who said it best.
The better-sourced lines are drier. Edmund Burke, in 1770, dismissed the cant of “Not men, but measures.” Stanisław Jerzy Lec’s Unkempt Thoughts (1957) has the shortest joke on the page, “a Trojan horse race.” Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary (1911) calls politics a strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
Three well-known lines are flagged misattributed: “Politics is the art of the possible” (Franklin), a remark about playing your cards face upwards (H. G. Wells), and “politics have no relation to morals” (Machiavelli).
Every Communist must grasp the truth: Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Three-fourths of the Italian economy, industrial and agricultural, is in the hands of the state.
Why is it the Mongols of this world always tell us they're defending us against the Mongols?
Nothing’s more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
Campaign promises are, by long democratic tradition, the least binding form of human commitment.
Politics is nothing but common action to secure more favorable living conditions.
The only thing worse in politics than being wrong is being boring, as Dick Nixon would say.